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Please note: The Combined Volume includes all chapters. Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-16.Volume 2 includes Chapters 14-30.Volume A includes Chapters 1-12.Volume B includes Chapters 11-19.Volume C includes Chapters 19-30.Since 1300 includes Chapters 11-30.NOTE: LaunchPad material that does not appear in the print book – including guided reading exercises, author features, LearningCurve adaptive quizzes, and summative quizzes– has been indicated on this table of contents as shown. Each chapter in LaunchPad also comes with a wealth of additional documents, videos, key terms flashcards, map quizzes, timeline activities, and much more, all of which can be easily integrated and assigned.ContentsPrefaceVersions and SupplementsMaps, Figures, and TablesSpecial Features

1 ORIGINS to 1200 b.c.e.Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadUnderstanding Western HistoryDescribing the West What Is Civilization?The Earliest Human SocietiesFrom the First Hominids to the Paleolithic EraPlanting CropsImplications of AgricultureTrade and Cross-Cultural ConnectionsEvaluating the Evidence 1.1: Paleolithic Venus FiguresCivilization in MesopotamiaEnvironment and Mesopotamian DevelopmentThe Invention of Writing and the First SchoolsReligion in MesopotamiaSumerian Politics and SocietyEvaluating the Evidence 1.2: Gilgamesh’s Quest for ImmortalityEmpires in MesopotamiaThe Akkadians and the BabyloniansLife Under HammurabiCultural Exchange in the Fertile CrescentThe EgyptiansThe Nile and the God-KingEgyptian ReligionEgyptian Society and WorkEgyptian Family LifeThe Hyksos and New Kingdom RevivalConflict and Cooperation with the HittitesEvaluating the Evidence 1.3: Egyptian Home LifeLooking Back / Looking AheadReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadLiving in the Past: The IcemanThinking Like a Historian: Addressing the GodsMapping the Past: Empires and Migrations in the Eastern Mediterranean Individuals in Society: Hatshepsut and NefertitiSummative Quiz LaunchPad

1. Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 1 LaunchPadDocument 1-1: The Battle Between Marduk and Tiamat (ca. 2000–1000 B.C.E.)Document 1-2: The Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 2750 B.C.E.)Document 1-3: The Code of Hammurabi (ca. 1780 B.C.E.)Document 1-4: The Egyptian Book of the Dead (ca. 2100–1800 B.C.E.)Document 1-5: Letters Between a Sumerian King and His Prime Minister (ca. 2000–1700 B.C.E.) Document 1-6: Akhenaten, The Hymn to Aton (ca. 1350 B.C.E.)Document 1-7: Lamentation Over the Destruction of Sumer and Ur (ca. 2000 - 1700 B.C.E.)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 12 Small Kingdoms and Mighty Empires in the Near East1200–510 b.c.e.Guided Reading ExerciseLaunchPadIron and the Emergence of New StatesIron TechnologyThe Decline of Egypt and the Emergence of KushThe Rise of PhoeniciaEvaluating the Evidence 2.1: The Report of WenamunThe HebrewsThe Hebrew StateThe Jewish ReligionHebrew Family and SocietyEvaluating the Evidence 2.2: A Jewish Family Contract Assyria, the Military MonarchyAssyria’s Long Road to PowerAssyrian Rule and CultureThe Neo-Babylonian EmpireEvaluating the Evidence 2.3: Assyrians Besiege a CityThe Empire of the Persian KingsConsolidation of the Persian EmpirePersian ReligionPersian Art and CultureReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadThinking Like a Historian: The Moral LifeMapping the Past: The Assyrian and Persian Empires, ca. 1000–500 b.c.e.Living in the Past: Assyrian Palace Life and PowerIndividuals in Society: Cyrus the GreatSummative Quiz LaunchPad2.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 2 LaunchPadDocument 2-1: Book of Genesis (ca. 950–450 B.C.E.)Document 2-2: Exodus and Deuteronomy (ca. 950–450 B.C.E.)Document 2-3: Assyrian Kings Proclaim Their Greatness (ca. 1220–1070 B.C.E.) Document 2-4: Cyrus and Persia, Ruling an Empire (ca. 550 B.C.E.)Document 2-5: Book of Isaiah: Blessings for Cyrus (ca. 550 B.C.E.)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 23 The Development of Greek Society and Cultureca. 3000–338 b.c.e.Guided Reading ExerciseLaunchPadGreece in the Bronze AgeGeography and SettlementThe MinoansThe MycenaeansHomer, Hesiod, and the EpicEvaluating the Evidence 3.1: Hesiod, Works and DaysThe Development of the Polis in the Archaic AgeOrganization of the PolisGoverning StructuresOverseas ExpansionThe Growth of SpartaThe Evolution of AthensWar and Turmoil in the Classical PeriodThe Persian WarsGrowth of the Athenian EmpireThe Peloponnesian WarThe Struggle for DominancePhilip II and Macedonian SupremacyClassical Greek Life and CultureAthenian Arts in the Age of PericlesHouseholds and WorkGender and SexualityPublic and Personal ReligionThe Flowering of PhilosophyEvaluating the Evidence 3.2: The Acropolis of AthensEvaluating the Evidence 3.3 Sophocles, AntigoneReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadLiving in the Past: Triremes and Their CrewsMapping the Past: The Peloponnesian War, 431–404 b.c.e.Thinking Like a Historian: Gender Roles in Classical AthensIndividuals in Society: Aristophanes00Summative Quiz LaunchPad3.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 3 LaunchPadDocument 3-1: Homer, The Odyssey: Odysseus and the Sirens (ca. 800 B.C.E.)Document 3-2: Hesiod, Works and Days (ca. 800 B.C.E.)Document 3-3: Sophocles, Antigone (441 B.C.E.)Document 3-4: Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War: Pericles’ Funeral Oration (ca. 400 B.C.E.)Document 3-5: Plato, The Republic: The Allegory of the Cave (ca. 360 B.C.E.)Document 3-6: Aristotle, Politics: Democracy (ca. 340 B.C.E.)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 34 Life in the Hellenistic World 336–30 b.c.e.Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadAlexander’s Conquests and Their Political LegacyMilitary CampaignsThe Political LegacyEvaluating the Evidence 4.1: Arrian on Alexander the GreatBuilding a Hellenized SocietyUrban LifeGreeks in Hellenistic CitiesGreeks and Non-GreeksThe Economy of the Hellenistic WorldAgriculture and IndustryCommerceReligion and Philosophy in the Hellenistic WorldReligion and MagicHellenism and the JewsPhilosophy and the PeopleEvaluating the Evidence 4.2: A Hellenistic Spell of AttractionHellenistic Science and MedicineScienceMedicineEvaluating the Evidence 4.3: The Periplus of the Erythraean SeaReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadMapping the Past: The Hellenistic World, ca. 263 b.c.eLiving in the Past: Farming in the Hellenistic WorldThe Past Living Now: Container ShippingIndividuals in Society: Archimedes, Scientist and InventorThinking Like a Historian: Hellenistic MedicineSummative Quiz LaunchPad4.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 4 LaunchPadDocument 4-1: Ephippus of Olynthus, On the Burial of Alexander and Hephaestion: Ephippus of Olynthus Remembers Alexander the Great (ca. 323 B.C.E.)Document 4-2: Plutarch, Life of Cleomenes III (75 C.E.)Document 4-3: Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers: Diogenes of Sinope, the Cynic (ca. 300–200 B.C.E.)Document 4-4: Epicurus, The Principal Doctrines of Epicureanism (ca. 306 B.C.E.)Document 4-5: Epictetus, Encheiridion, or The Manual (ca. 100 C.E.)Document 4-6: Polybius, A Greek Historian Describes Byzantium’s Contribution to Regional Trade (ca. 170–118 B.C.E.)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 45 The Rise of Rome ca. 1000–27 b.c.e.Guided Reading ExerciseLaunchPadRome’s Rise to PowerThe Geography of ItalyThe EtruscansThe Founding of RomeThe Roman Conquest of ItalyEvaluating the Evidence 5.1: The Temple of Hercules VictorThe Roman RepublicThe Roman StateSocial Conflict in RomeRoman ExpansionThe Punic WarsRome Turns EastRoman SocietyRoman FamiliesGreek Influence on Roman CultureOpposing Views: Cato the Elder and Scipio AemilianusEvaluating the Evidence 5.2: A Woman’s Actions in the Turia InscriptionThe Late RepublicReforms for Poor and Landless CitizensPolitical ViolenceCivil WarEvaluating the Evidence 5.3: Cicero and the Plot to Kill CaesarReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadMapping the Past: Roman Expansion During the Republic, ca. 282–44 b.c.e.Living in the Past: Roman Table MannersThinking Like a Historian: Land Ownership and Social Conflict in the Late RepublicIndividuals in Society: Queen CleopatraSummative Quiz LaunchPad5.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 5 LaunchPadDocument 5-1: Livy, The Rape of Lucretia (ca. 27–25 B.C.E.)Document 5-2: A Roman Wedding (ca. 160 c.e.)Document 5-3: The Law of the Twelve Tables (449 b.c.e.)Document 5-4: Seneca, The Sounds of a Roman Bath (ca. 50 C.E.)Document 5-5: Appian of Alexandria, The Civil Wars (ca. 100 C.E.)Document 5-6: Plutarch, On Julius Caesar, a Man of Unlimited Ambition (ca. 44 B.C.E.)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 56 The Roman Empire 27 b.c.e.–284 c.e.Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadAugustus’s ReignThe PrincipateRoman ExpansionThe Flowering of Latin LiteratureMarriage and MoralityEvaluating the Evidence 6.1: Augustus, Res GestaeEvaluating the Evidence 6.2: Ovid, The Art of LoveEvaluating the Evidence 6.3: Ara PacisAugustus’s SuccessorsThe Julio-Claudians and the FlaviansThe Age of the "Five Good Emperors"Rome and the ProvincesLife in Imperial RomeApproaches to Urban ProblemsPopular EntertainmentProsperity in the Roman ProvincesTrade and CommerceThe Coming of ChristianityFactors Behind the Rise of ChristianityThe Life and Teachings of JesusThe Spread of ChristianityThe Growing Acceptance and Evolution of ChristianityThe Empire in DisarrayCivil Wars and Military CommandersTurmoil in Economic LifeReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadThinking Like a Historian: Army and EmpireIndividuals in Society: Pliny the ElderLiving in the Past: Roman Epitaphs: Death Remembers LifeMapping the Past: Production and Trade in the Pax Romana, ca. 27 b.c.e.–180 c.e.Summative Quiz LaunchPad6.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 6 LaunchPadDocument 6-1: Tacitus, Germania (ca. 100 C.E.)Document 6-2: Apuleius, The Golden Ass: The Veneration of Isis (ca. 170 C.E.)Document 6-3: The Gospel According to Matthew: The Sermon on the Mount (28 C.E.)Document 6-4: Paul of Tarsus, Epistle to the Galatians (ca. 50–60 C.E.)Document 6-5: The Alexamenos Graffito (ca. 100 C.E.)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 67 Late Antiquity 250–600Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadReconstruction Under Diocletian and ConstantinePolitical MeasuresEconomic IssuesThe Acceptance of ChristianityThe Growth of the Christian ChurchThe Church and Its LeadersThe Development of Christian MonasticismMonastery LifeChristianity and Classical CultureChristian Notions of Gender and SexualitySaint Augustine on Human Nature, Will, and SinBarbarian SocietyVillage and Family LifeTribes and HierarchiesCustomary and Written LawCeltic and Germanic ReligionEvaluating the Evidence 7.1: Tacitus on Germanic SocietyMigration, Assimilation, and ConflictCeltic and Germanic People in Gaul and BritainVisigoths and HunsGermanic Kingdoms and the End of the Roman EmpireEvaluating the Evidence 7.2: Battle Between Romans and GothsChristian Missionaries and ConversionMissionaries’ ActionsThe Process of ConversionEvaluating the Evidence 7.3: Gregory of Tours on the Veneration of RelicsThe Byzantine EmpireSources of Byzantine StrengthThe Law Code of JustinianByzantine Intellectual LifeThe Orthodox ChurchReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadThinking Like a Historian: Slavery in Roman and Germanic SocietyMapping the Past: The Barbarian Migrations, ca. 340–500Living in the Past: The Horses of SpainIndividuals in Society: Theodora of ConstantinopleSummative Quiz LaunchPad7.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 7 LaunchPadDocument 7-1: Saint Ambrose of Milan, Emperor Theodosius Brought to Heel (390)Document 7-2: Saint Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict (529)Document 7-3: Saint Augustine, City of God: The Two Cities (413–426)Document 7-4: The Law of the Salian Franks (ca. 500–600)Document 7-5: Emperor Justinian, The Institutes of Justinian (529–533)Document 7-6: Procopius of Caesarea, The Secret History (ca. 550)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 78 Europe in the Early Middle Ages 600–1000Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadThe Spread of IslamThe ArabsThe Prophet MuhammadThe Teachings and Expansion of IslamSunni and Shi’a DivisionsLife in Muslim SpainMuslim-Christian RelationsCross-Cultural Influences in Science and MedicineEvaluating the Evidence 8.1: The Muslim Conquest of SpainFrankish Rulers and Their TerritoriesThe MerovingiansThe Rise of the CarolingiansThe Warrior-Ruler CharlemagneCarolingian Government and SocietyThe Imperial Coronation of CharlemagneEvaluating the Evidence 8.2: The Capitulary de VillisEarly Medieval CultureThe Carolingian RenaissanceNorthumbrian Learning and WritingEvaluating the Evidence 8.3: The Death of BeowulfInvasions and MigrationsVikings in Western EuropeSlavs and Vikings in Eastern EuropeMagyars and MuslimsPolitical and Economic DecentralizationDecentralization and the Origins of "Feudalism"Manorialism, Serfdom, and the Slave TradeReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadLiving in the Past: Muslim Technology: Advances in PapermakingIndividuals in Society: The Venerable BedeMapping the Past: Invasions and Migrations of the Ninth and Tenth CenturiesThinking Like a Historian: Vikings Tell Their Own StorySummative Quiz LaunchPad8.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 8 LaunchPadDocument 8-1: Ibn Abd-El-Hakem, The Conquest of Spain (ca. 870)Document 8-2: Willibald, Saint Boniface Destroys the Oak of Thor (ca. 750)Document 8-3: Charlemagne, Capitulary for Saxony (ca. 775–790)Document 8-4: Charlemagne, General Capitulary for the MissiDocument 8-5: The Song of Roland (ca. 1100–1300)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 89 State and Church in the High Middle Ages 1000–1300 Guided Reading ExerciseLaunchPadPolitical Revival and the Origins of the Modern StateEnglandFranceCentral EuropeItalyThe Iberian PeninsulaEvaluating the Evidence 9.1: Marriage and Wardship in the Norman ExchequerLaw and JusticeLocal Laws and Royal CourtsThe Magna CartaLaw in Everyday LifeNoblesOrigins and Status of the NobilityTraining, Marriage, and InheritancePower and ResponsibilityThe PapacyThe Gregorian ReformsEmperor Versus PopeCriticism and HeresyThe Popes and Church LawEvaluating the Evidence 9.2: Pope Boniface VIII, Unam SanctamMonks, Nuns, and FriarsMonastic RevivalLife in Convents and MonasteriesThe FriarsEvaluating the Evidence 9.3: Brother Henry as Composer and SingerThe Crusades and the Expansion of ChristianityBackground and Motives of the CrusadesThe Course of the CrusadesConsequences of the CrusadesThe Expansion of ChristianityChristendomReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadLiving in the Past: Life in an English CastleIndividuals in Society: Hildegard of BingenMapping the Past: The CrusadesThinking Like a Historian: Christian and Muslim Views of the CrusadesSummative Quiz LaunchPad9.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 9 LaunchPadDocument 9-1: Duke William of Aquitaine, On the Foundation of Cluny (909)Document 9-2: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: William the Conqueror and the Domesday Book (1086)Document 9-3: King John of England, From Magna Carta: The Great Charter of Liberties (1215)Document 9-4: Pope Gregory VII and Emperor Henry IV, Mutual Recriminations: The Investiture Controversy Begins (1076)Document 9-5: Robert the Monk of Rheims, Urban II at the Council of Clermont (ca. 1120)Document 9-6: Guibert of Nogent/Anna Comnena, Peter the Hermit and the "People’s Crusade" (ca. 1108–1148)Document 9-7: Anonymous of Mainz, The Slaughter of the Jews (ca. 1096)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 910 Life in Villages and Cities of the High Middle Ages 1000–1300Village LifeGuided Reading Exercise LaunchPadSlavery, Serfdom, and Upward MobilityThe ManorWorkHome LifeChildbirth and Child AbandonmentPopular ReligionChristian Life in Medieval VillagesSaints and SacramentsMuslims and JewsRituals of Marriage and BirthDeath and the AfterlifeEvaluating the Evidence 10.1: The Pilgrim’s Guide to Santiago de CompostelaTowns and Economic RevivalThe Rise of TownsMerchant and Craft GuildsThe Revival of Long-Distance TradeBusiness ProceduresThe Commercial RevolutionUrban LifeCity LifeServants and the PoorPopular EntertainmentMedieval UniversitiesOriginsLegal and Medical TrainingTheology and PhilosophyUniversity StudentsEvaluating the Evidence 10.2: Healthy LivingLiterature and ArchitectureVernacular Literature and DramaChurches and CathedralsEvaluating the Evidence 10.3: Courtly Love PoetryReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadThinking Like a Historian: Social and Economic Relations in Medieval English VillagesLiving in the Past: Child’s PlayMapping the Past: European Population Density, ca. 1300Individuals in Society: Francesco DatiniThe Past Living Now: University LifeSummative Quiz LaunchPad10.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 10 LaunchPadDocument 10-1: Manorial Records of Bernehorne (1307)Document 10-2: On Laborers: A Dialogue Between Teacher and Student (ca. 1000)Document 10-3: The Charter of the Laon Commune (ca. 1100–1120)Document 10-4: The Ordinances of London’s Leatherworkers (1346)Document 10-5: The Commune of Florence, A Sumptuary Law: Restrictions on Dress (1373)Document 10-6: Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica: Proof of the Existence of God (1268)Document 10-7: Jacques de Vitry, The Virgin Mary Saves a Monk and His Lover (ca. 1200)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 1011 The Later Middle Ages 1300–1450Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadPrelude to DisasterClimate Change and FamineSocial ConsequencesThe Black DeathPathologySpread of the DiseaseCare of the SickEconomic, Religious, and Cultural EffectsEvaluating the Evidence 11.1: Dance of DeathThe Hundred Years’ WarCausesEnglish SuccessesJoan of Arc and France’s VictoryAftermathEvaluating the Evidence 11.2: The Trial of Joan of ArcChallenges to the ChurchThe Babylonian Captivity and Great SchismCritiques, Divisions, and CouncilsLay Piety and MysticismSocial Unrest in a Changing SocietyPeasant RevoltsUrban ConflictsSex in the CityFur-Collar CrimeEthnic Tensions and RestrictionsLiteracy and Vernacular LiteratureEvaluating the Evidence 11.3: Christine de Pizan, Advice to the Wives of ArtisansReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadMapping the Past: The Course of the Black Death in Fourteenth-Century EuropeLiving in the Past: Treating the PlagueIndividuals in Society: Meister EckhartThinking Like a Historian: Popular Revolts in the Late Middle AgesSummative Quiz LaunchPad11.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 11 LaunchPadDocument 11-1:Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron: The Plague Hits Florence (ca. 1350)Document 11-2: Angelo di Tura, Sienese Chronicle (1348–1351)Document 11-3: The Anonimalle Chronicle: The English Peasants’ Revolt (1381)Document 11-4: Petrarca-Meister, The Social Order (ca. 1515)Document 11-5: Catherine of Siena, Letter to Gregory XI (1372)Document 11-6: The Debate Over Joan of Arc’s Clothes (1429)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 1112 European Society in the Age of the Renaissance 1350–1550Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadWealth and Power in Renaissance ItalyTrade and ProsperityCommunes and Republics of Northern ItalyCity-States and the Balance of PowerEvaluating the Evidence 12.1: A Sermon of SavonarolaIntellectual ChangeHumanismEducationPolitical ThoughtChristian HumanismThe Printed WordEvaluating the Evidence 12.2: Thomas More, UtopiaArt and the ArtistPatronage and PowerChanging Artistic StyleThe Renaissance ArtistSocial HierarchiesRace and SlaveryWealth and the NobilityGender RolesPolitics and the State in Western EuropeFranceEnglandSpainEvaluating the Evidence 12.3: A Gold Coin of Ferdinand and IsabellaReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadThinking Like a Historian: Humanist LearningMapping the Past: The Growth of Printing in Europe, 1448–1552Individuals in Society: Leonardo da VinciLiving in the Past: Male Clothing and MasculinitySummative Quiz LaunchPad12.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 12 LaunchPadDocument 12-1:Petrarch, Letter to Livy (1350)Document 12-2: Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (1513)Document 12-3:Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (1528)Document 12-4: Desiderius Erasmus, The Education of a Christian Prince (1404)Document 12-5: Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies: Against Those Men Who Claim It Is Not Good for Women to Be Educated (1404)Document 12-6: Artemisia Gentileschi, Susannah and the Elders (1610)Document 12-7: Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith and Holofernes (1610)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 1213 Reformations and Religious Wars 1500–1600Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadThe Early ReformationThe Christian Church in the Early Sixteenth CenturyMartin LutherProtestant ThoughtThe Appeal of Protestant IdeasThe Radical Reformation and the German Peasants’ WarMarriage, Sexuality, and the Role of WomenEvaluating the Evidence 13.1: Martin Luther, On Christian LibertyEvaluating the Evidence 13.2: Domestic SceneThe Reformation and German PoliticsThe Rise of the Habsburg DynastyReligious Wars in Switzerland and GermanyThe Spread of Protestant IdeasScandinaviaHenry VIII and the Reformation in EnglandUpholding Protestantism in EnglandCalvinismThe Reformation in Eastern EuropeEvaluating the Evidence 13.3: Elizabethan Injunctions About ReligionThe Catholic ReformationPapal Reform and the Council of TrentNew and Reformed Religious OrdersReligious ViolenceFrench Religious WarsThe Netherlands Under Charles VThe Great European Witch-HuntReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadLiving in the Past: Uses of Art in the ReformationIndividuals in Society: Anna Jansz of RotterdamThinking Like a Historian: Social Discipline in the ReformationMapping the Past: Religious Divisions in Europe, ca. 1555Summative Quiz LaunchPad13.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 13 LaunchPadDocument 13-1:Martin Luther, Ninety-five Theses on the Power of Indulgences (1517)Document 13-2: Hans Holbein the Younger, Luther as the German Hercules (ca. 1519)Document 13-3:Jean Bodin, On the Demon-Mania of Witches (1580)Document 13-4: Elizabeth Fox Confesses to Witchcraft (1566)Document 13-5: John Calvin, The Institutes of Christian Religion (1559)Document 13-6: Ignatius of Loyola, Rules for Right Thinking (1548)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 1314 European Exploration and Conquest 1450–1650Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadWorld Contacts Before ColumbusThe Trade World of the Indian OceanThe Trading States of AfricaThe Ottoman and Persian EmpiresGenoese and Venetian MiddlemenThe European Voyages of DiscoveryCauses of European ExpansionTechnology and the Rise of ExplorationThe Portuguese Overseas EmpireSpain’s Voyages to the AmericasSpain "Discovers" the PacificEarly Exploration by Northern European PowersEvaluating the Evidence 14.1: Columbus Describes His First VoyageConquest and SettlementSpanish Conquest of the Aztec and Inca EmpiresPortuguese BrazilColonial Empires of England and FranceColonial AdministrationThe Era of Global ContactIndigenous Population Loss and Economic ExploitationLife in the ColoniesThe Columbian ExchangeSugar and SlaverySpanish Silver and Its Economic EffectsThe Birth of the Global EconomyEvaluating the Evidence 14.2: Interpreting the Spread of Disease Among NativesChanging Attitudes and BeliefsReligious ConversionEuropean Debates About Indigenous PeoplesNew Ideas About RaceMichel de Montaigne and Cultural CuriosityWilliam Shakespeare and His InfluenceEvaluating the Evidence 14.3: Tenochtitlan Leaders Respond to Spanish MissionariesReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadMapping the Past: Overseas Exploration and Conquest in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth CenturiesThinking Like a Historian: Who Was Doña MarinaLiving in the Past: Foods of the Columbian ExchangeIndividuals in Society: Juan de ParejaSummative Quiz LaunchPad14.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 14 LaunchPadDocument 14-1:Christopher Columbus, Diario (1492)Document 14-2: Hernando Cortés, Two Letters to Charles V: On the Conquest of the Aztecs (1521)Document 14-3:Alvise da Ca' da Mosto, Description of Capo Bianco and the Islands Nearest to It: Fifteenth-Century Slave Trade in West Africa (1455–1456)Document 14-4: King Nzinga Mbemba Affonso of Congo, Letters on the Slave Trade (1526)Document 14-5: Saint Francis Xavier, Missionaries in Japan (1552)Document 14-6: Michel de Montaigne, Of Cannibals (1580)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 1415 Absolutism and Constitutionalism ca. 1589–1725Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadSeventeenth-Century Crisis and RebuildingThe Social Order and Peasant LifeFamine and Economic CrisisThe Thirty Years’ WarAchievements in State-BuildingWarfare and the Growth of Army SizePopular Political ActionAbsolutism in France and SpainThe Foundations of French AbsolutismLouis XIV and AbsolutismLife at VersaillesThe French Economic Policy of MercantilismLouis XIV’s WarsThe Decline of Absolutist Spain in the Seventeenth CenturyEvaluating the Evidence 15.1: Letter from VersaillesAbsolutism in Austria and PrussiaThe Return of Serfdom in the EastThe Austrian HabsburgsPrussia in the Seventeenth CenturyThe Consolidation of Prussian AbsolutismThe Development of Russia and the Ottoman EmpireMongol Rule in Russia and the Rise of MoscowBuilding the Russian EmpireThe Reforms of Peter the GreatThe Ottoman EmpireEvaluating the Evidence 15.2: Peter the Great and Foreign ExpertsConstitutional Rule in England and the Dutch RepublicReligious Divides and Civil WarThe Puritan ProtectorateThe Restoration of the English MonarchyConstitutional MonarchyThe Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth CenturyBaroque Art and MusicEvaluating the Evidence 15.3: John Locke, Two Treatises of GovernmentReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadThinking Like a Historian: What Was Absolutism?Mapping the Past: Europe After the Peace of Utrecht, 1715Living in the Past: The Absolutist PalaceIndividuals in Society: HürremSummative Quiz LaunchPad15.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 15 LaunchPadDocument 15-1:Henry IV, Edict of Nantes (1598)Document 15-2: Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture (1679)Document 15-3: The Bill of Rights (1689)Document 15-4: Peter the Great, Edicts and Decrees (1699–1723)Document 15-5: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651)Document 15-6: John Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government: Vindication for the Glorious Revolution (1690)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 1516 Toward a New Worldview 1540–1789Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadThe Scientific RevolutionWhy Europe?Scientific Thought to 1500The Copernican HypothesisBrahe, Kepler, and Galileo: Proving Copernicus RightNewton’s SynthesisNatural History and EmpireMagic and AlchemyEvaluating the Evidence 16.1: Galileo Galilei, The Sidereal MessengerImportant Changes in Scientific Thinking and PracticeThe Methods of Science: Bacon and DescartesMedicine, the Body, and ChemistryScience and ReligionScience and SocietyEvaluating the Evidence 16.2: "An Account of a Particular Species of Cocoon"The Rise and Spread of Enlightenment Thought The Early EnlightenmentThe Influence of the PhilosophesEnlightenment Movements Across EuropeThe Social Life of the EnlightenmentGlobal ContactsEnlightenment Debates About RaceWomen and the EnlightenmentUrban Culture and Life in the Public SphereEvaluating the Evidence 16.3: Denis Diderot, "Supplement to Bougainville’s Voyage"Enlightened AbsolutismFrederick the Great of PrussiaCatherine the Great of RussiaThe Austrian HabsburgsJewish Life and the Limits of Enlightened AbsolutismReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadThinking Like a Historian: The Enlightenment Debate on Religious ToleranceLiving in the Past: Coffeehouse CultureMapping the Past: The Partition of Poland, 1772–1795Individuals in Society: Moses Mendelssohn and the Jewish EnlightenmentSummative Quiz LaunchPad16.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 16 LaunchPadDocument 16-1:Nicolaus Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (1542)Document 16-2: Francis Bacon, On Superstition and the Virtue of Science (1620)Document 16-3: Frederick the Great, Essay on the Forms of Government (ca. 1740)Document 16-4: Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, From The Spirit of Laws: On the Separation of Governmental Powers (1748)Document 16-5: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract: On Popular Sovereignty and the General Will (1762)Document 16-6: Voltaire, A Treatise on Toleration (1763)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 1617 The Expansion of Europe 1650–1800Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadWorking the LandThe Legacy of the Open-Field SystemNew Methods of AgricultureThe Leadership of the Low Countries and EnglandEvaluating the Evidence 17.1: Arthur Young on the Benefits of EnclosureThe Beginning of the Population ExplosionLong-Standing Obstacles to Population GrowthThe New Pattern of the Eighteenth CenturyThe Growth of Rural IndustryThe Putting-Out SystemThe Lives of Rural Textile WorkersThe Industrious RevolutionThe Debate over Urban GuildsUrban GuildsAdam Smith and Economic LiberalismEvaluating the Evidence 17.2: Adam Smith on the Division of LaborThe Atlantic World and Global TradeMercantilism and Colonial CompetitionThe Atlantic EconomyThe Atlantic Slave TradeIdentities and Communities of the Atlantic WorldThe Atlantic EnlightenmentTrade and Empire in Asia and the PacificEvaluating the Evidence 17.3: Olaudah Equiano’s Economic Arguments for Ending SlaveryReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadMapping the Past: Industry and Population in Eighteenth-Century EuropeThinking Like a Historian: Rural Industry: Progress or Exploitation?Living in the Past: The Remaking of LondonIndividuals in Society: Rebecca ProttenSummative Quiz LaunchPad17.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 17 LaunchPadDocument 17-1: The Guild System in Germany (1704–1719)Document 17-2: Thomas Mun, England’s Treasure by Foreign Trade (1664)Document 17-3: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (1776)Document 17-4: Olaudah Equiano, A Description of the Middle Passage (1789)Document 17-5: Robert, First Baron Clive, Speech in the House of Commons on India (1772)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 1718 Life in the Era of Expansion 1650–1800Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadMarriage and the FamilyLate Marriage and Nuclear FamiliesWork Away from HomePremarital Sex and Community ControlsNew Patterns of Marriage and IllegitimacySex on the Margins of SocietyChildren and EducationChild Care and NursingFoundlings and InfanticideAttitudes Toward ChildrenThe Spread of Elementary SchoolsEvaluating the Evidence 18.1: Parisian BoyhoodPopular Culture and ConsumerismPopular LiteratureLeisure and RecreationNew Foods and AppetitesToward a Consumer SocietyEvaluating the Evidence 18.2: A Day in the Life of ParisReligious Authority and BeliefsChurch HierarchyProtestant RevivalCatholic PietyMarginal Beliefs and PracticesEvaluating the Evidence 18.3: Advice to MethodistsMedical PracticeFaith Healing and General PracticeImprovements in SurgeryMidwiferyThe Conquest of SmallpoxReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadMapping the Past: Literacy in France, ca. 1789The Past Living Now: The Commercialization of SportsIndividuals in Society: Rose Bertin, "Minister of Fashion"Thinking Like a Historian: A New SubjectivityLiving in the Past: Improvements in ChildbirthSummative Quiz LaunchPad18.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 18 LaunchPadDocument 18-1: Edmond Williamson, Births and Deaths in an English Gentry Family (1709–1720)Document 18-2: Mary Wortley Montagu, On Smallpox Inoculations (ca. 1717)Document 18-3: John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)Document 18-4: John Wesley, The Ground Rules for Methodism (1749)Document 18-5: Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (1794)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 1819 Revolutions in Politics 1775–1815Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadBackground to RevolutionSocial ChangeGrowing Demands for Liberty and EqualityThe Seven Years’ WarThe American Revolutionary Era, 1775–1789The Origins of the RevolutionIndependence from BritainFraming the ConstitutionLimitations of Liberty and EqualityEvaluating the Evidence 19.1: Abigail Adams, "Remember the Ladies"Revolution in France, 1789–1791Breakdown of the Old OrderThe Formation of the National AssemblyPopular Uprising and the Rights of ManA Constitutional Monarchy and Its ChallengesEvaluating the Evidence 19.2: Abbé Sieyès, What Is the Third Estate?World War and Republican France, 1791–1799The International ResponseThe Second Revolution and the New RepublicTotal War and the TerrorThe Thermidorian Reaction and the DirectoryEvaluating the Evidence 19.3: Contrasting Visions of the Sans-CulottesThe Napoleonic Era, 1799–1815Napoleon’s Rule of FranceNapoleon’s Expansion in EuropeThe Grand Empire and Its EndThe Haitian Revolution, 1791–1804Revolutionary Aspirations in Saint-DomingueThe Outbreak of RevoltThe War of Haitian IndependenceReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadThinking Like a Historian: The Rights of Which Men?Living in the Past: A Revolution of Culture and Daily LifeMapping the Past: Napoleonic Europe in 1812Individuals in Society: Toussaint L’OuvertureSummative Quiz LaunchPad19.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 19 LaunchPadDocument 19-1:Commissioners of the Third Estate of the Carcassonne, Notebooks of Grievances (1789)Document 19-2: Abbé Sieyès, What Is the Third Estate? (1789)Document 19-3: National Assembly of France, Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789)Document 19-4: The Law of 22 Prairial (1794)Document 19-5: Napoleon Bonaparte, The Napoleonic Code (1804)Document 19-6: Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)Document 19-7: François Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture, A Black Revolutionary Leader in Haiti (1797)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 1920 The Revolution in Energy and Industry ca. 1780–1850Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadThe Industrial Revolution in BritainWhy Britain?Technological Innovations and Early FactoriesThe Steam Engine BreakthroughSteam-Powered TransportationIndustry and PopulationIndustrialization in Europe and the WorldNational and International VariationsIndustrialization in Continental EuropeAgents of IndustrializationThe Global PictureNew Patterns of Working and LivingWork in Early FactoriesWorking Families and ChildrenThe New Sexual Division of LaborLiving Standards of the Working ClassEvaluating the Evidence 20.1: Debate over Child Labor LawsEvaluating the Evidence 20.2: The Testimony of Young Mine WorkersRelations Between Capital and LaborThe New Class of Factory OwnersResponses to IndustrializationThe Early British Labor MovementThe Impact of SlaveryEvaluating the Evidence 20.3: Advice for Middle-Class WomenReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadIndividuals in Society: Samuel CromptonLiving in the Past: The Steam AgeMapping the Past: Continental Industrialization, ca. 1850Thinking Like a Historian: Making the Industrialized WorkerSummative Quiz LaunchPad20.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 20 LaunchPadDocument 20-1:Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)Document 20-2: Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (1844)Document 20-3: Factory Rules in Berlin (1844)Document 20-4: Ned Ludd, Yorkshire Textile Workers Threaten a Factory Owner (ca. 1811–1812)Document 20-5: Robert Owen, A New View of Society (1813)Document 20-6: The Child of the Factory (1842)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 2021 Ideologies and Upheavals 1815–1850Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadThe Aftermath of the Napoleonic WarsThe European Balance of PowerMetternich and ConservatismRepressing the Revolutionary SpiritLimits to Conservative Power and Revolution in South AmericaEvaluating the Evidence 21.1: The Karlsbad Decrees: Conservative Reaction in the German ConfederationThe Spread of Radical IdeasLiberalism and the Middle ClassThe Growing Appeal of NationalismThe Foundations of Modern SocialismThe Birth of Marxist SocialismThe Romantic MovementThe Tenets of RomanticismRomantic LiteratureRomanticism in Art and MusicEvaluating the Evidence 21.2: English Romantic PoetsEvaluating the Evidence 21.3: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Children’s Stories and Household TalesReforms and Revolutions Before 1848National Liberation in GreeceLiberal Reform in Great BritainIreland and the Great FamineThe Revolution of 1830 in FranceThe Revolutions of 1848A Democratic Republic in FranceRevolution and Reaction in the Austrian EmpirePrussia, the German Confederation, and the Frankfurt National ParliamentReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadMapping the Past: Europe in 1815Thinking Like a Historian: The Republican Spirit in 1848Individuals in Society: Germaine de StaëlLiving in the Past: Revolutionary Experiences in 1848Summative Quiz LaunchPad21.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 21 LaunchPadDocument 21-1:David Ricardo, On Wages (1817)Document 21-2: Klemens von Metternich, Political Confession of Faith (1820)Document 21-3:John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)Document 21-4: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1848)Document 21-5: Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People (1830)Document 21-6: The People’s Charter (1838)Document 21-7: William Steuart Trench, Realities of Irish Life (1847)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 2122 Life in the Emerging Urban Society 1840–1914Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadTaming the CityIndustry and the Growth of CitiesThe Advent of the Public Health MovementThe Bacterial RevolutionImprovements in Urban PlanningPublic TransportationEvaluating the Evidence 22.1: First Impressions of the World’s Biggest CityRich and Poor and Those in BetweenMiddle-Class Culture and ValuesThe Distribution of IncomeThe People and Occupations of the Middle ClassesMiddle-Class Culture and ValuesThe People and Occupations of the Working ClassesWorking-Class Leisure and ReligionChanging Family LifestylesMiddle-Class Marriage and Courtship RitualsMiddle- and Working-Class SexualityProstitutionSeparate Spheres and the Importance of HomemakingChild RearingThe Feminist MovementEvaluating the Evidence 22.2: Stephan Zweig on Middle-Class Youth and SexualityScience and ThoughtThe Triumph of Science in IndustryDarwin and Natural SelectionThe Modern University and the Social SciencesRealism in Art and LiteratureEvaluating the Evidence 22.3: Émile Zola and Realism in LiteratureReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadMapping the Past: European Cities of 100,000 or More, 1800–1900The Past Living Now: Modern Sewage SystemsLiving in the Past: Nineteenth-Century Women’s FashionIndividuals in Society: Franziska TiburtiusThinking Like a Historian: The Promise of ElectricitySummative Quiz LaunchPad22.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 22 LaunchPadDocument 22-1:Edwin Chadwick, Inquiry into the Sanitary Condition of the Poor (1842)Document 22-2: Jack London, The People of the Abyss (1902)Document 22-3: Isabella Beeton, Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management (1861)Document 22-4: Dressing the Respectable Woman (ca. 1890)Document 22-5: Clara Zetkin, Women’s Work and the Trade Unions (1887)Document 22-6: Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871)Document 22-7: Herbert Spencer, Social Statics: Survival of the Fittest Applied to Humankind (1851)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 2223 The Age of Nationalism 1850–1914Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadNapoleon III in FranceFrance’s Second RepublicNapoleon III’s Second EmpireNation Building in Italy, Germany, and the United StatesItaly to 1850Cavour and Garibaldi in ItalyGrowing Austro-Prussian RivalryBismarck and the Austro-Prussian WarTaming the German ParliamentThe Franco-Prussian WarSlavery and Nation Building in the United StatesEvaluating the Evidence 23.1: The Struggle for the Italian NationThe Modernization of Russia and the Ottoman EmpireThe "Great Reforms" in RussiaThe Russian Revolution of 1905Reform and Readjustment in the Ottoman EmpireEvaluating the Evidence 23.2: Eyewitness Accounts of Bloody SundayThe Responsive National State, 1871–1914The German EmpireRepublican FranceGreat Britain and IrelandThe Austro-Hungarian EmpireThe Nation and the PeopleMaking National CitizensNationalism and RacismJewish Emancipation and Modern Anti-SemitismMarxism and the Socialist MovementThe Socialist InternationalLabor Unions and Marxist RevisionismEvaluating the Evidence 23.3: Adelheid Popp, the Making of a SocialistReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadMapping the Past: The Unification of Germany, 1864–1871Living in the Past: Peasant Life in Post-Reform RussiaThinking Like a Historian: How to Build a NationIndividuals in Society: Theodor HerzlSummative Quiz LaunchPad23.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 23 LaunchPadDocument 23-1: The First Meeting Between Mazzini and Garibaldi (1833)Document 23-2: Giorgio Asproni, Reflections on the Death of Cavour (1860)Document 23-3: Otto von Bismarck, Speech Before the Reichstag: On the Law for Workers’ Compensation (1884)Document 23-4: John Leighton, Paris Under the Commune (1871)Document 23-5: Émile Zola, "J’Accuse" the French Army (1898)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 2324 The West and the World 1815–1914Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadIndustrialization and the World EconomyThe Rise of Global InequalityThe World MarketThe Opening of ChinaJapan and the United StatesWestern Penetration of EgyptGlobal Migration Around 1900The Pressure of PopulationEuropean EmigrationAsian EmigrationEvaluating the Evidence 24.1: Nativism in the United StatesWestern Imperialism, 1880–1914The European Presence in Africa Before 1880The Scramble for Africa After 1880Imperialism in AsiaCauses of the New ImperialismA "Civilizing Mission"OrientalismCritics of ImperialismEvaluating the Evidence 24.2: The White Man’s BurdenEvaluating the Evidence 24.3: The Brown Man’s BurdenResponding to Western ImperialismThe Pattern of ResponseEmpire in IndiaThe Example of JapanToward Revolution in ChinaReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadMapping the Past: The Partition of AfricaLiving in the Past: The Immigrant ExperienceThinking Like a Historian: Women and EmpireIndividuals in Society: Cecil RhodesSummative Quiz LaunchPad24.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 24 LaunchPadDocument 24-1:Commissioner Lin Zexu, Letter to Queen Victoria (1839)Document 24-2: Jules Ferry, Speech Before the French Chamber of Deputies (1884)Document 24-3: The Rhodes Colossus (1892)Document 24-4: Henry Morton Stanley, Autobiography (1909)Document 24-5: Mark Twain, King Leopold’s Soliloquy (1905)Document 24-6: J. A. Hobson, Imperialism (1902)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 2425 War and Revolution 1914–1919 Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadThe Road to WarGrowing International ConflictThe Mood of 1914The Outbreak of WarWaging Total WarStalemate and Slaughter on the Western FrontThe Widening WarEvaluating the Evidence 25.1: Poetry in the TrenchesThe Home FrontMobilizing for Total WarThe Social ImpactGrowing Political TensionsEvaluating the Evidence 25.2: Wartime Propaganda PostersThe Russian RevolutionThe Fall of Imperial RussiaThe Provisional GovernmentLenin and the Bolshevik RevolutionTrotsky and the Seizure of PowerDictatorship and Civil WarEvaluating the Evidence 25.3: Peace, Land, and Bread for the Russian PeopleThe Peace SettlementThe End of the WarRevolution in Austria-Hungary and GermanyThe Treaty of VersaillesThe Peace Settlement in the Middle EastThe Human Costs of the WarReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadIndividuals in Society: Vera BrittainLiving in the Past: Life and Death on the Western FrontMapping the Past: Territorial Changes After World War IThinking Like a Historian: The Partition of the Ottoman Empire and the Mandate SystemSummative Quiz LaunchPad25.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 25 LaunchPadDocument 25-1: Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Telegram to the German Ambassador at Vienna (July 6, 1914)Document 25-2: Klaxon Horn Used to Warn of Gas Attacks (1917)Document 25-3: Baron Manfred von Richthofen (1917)Document 25-4: Helena Swanwick, The War in Its Effect Upon Women (1916)Document 25-5: Vladimir I. Lenin, What Is to Be Done? (1902)Document 25-6: Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points (1918)Document 25-7: A Defeated Germany Contemplates the Peace Treaty (1919)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 2526 The Age of Anxiety 1880–1940Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadUncertainty in Modern ThoughtModern PhilosophyThe Revival of ChristianityThe New PhysicsFreudian PsychologyEvaluating the Evidence 26.1: Friedrich Nietzsche Pronounces the Death of GodModernism in Architecture, Art, Literature, and MusicArchitecture and DesignNew Artistic MovementsTwentieth-Century LiteratureModern MusicEvaluating the Evidence 26.2: The Futurist ManifestoAn Emerging Consumer SocietyMass CultureThe Appeal of CinemaThe Arrival of RadioThe Search for Peace and Political StabilityGermany and the Western PowersHope in Foreign AffairsHope in Democratic GovernmentThe Great Depression, 1929–1939The Economic CrisisMass UnemploymentThe New Deal in the United StatesThe Scandinavian Response to the DepressionRecovery and Reform in Britain and FranceEvaluating the Evidence 26.3: George Orwell on Life on the DoleReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadLiving in the Past: Modern Design for Everyday UseThinking Like a Historian: The Radio AgeIndividuals in Society: Gustav StresemannMapping the Past: The Great Depression in the United States and Europe, 1929–1939Summative Quiz LaunchPad26.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 26 LaunchPadDocument 26-1: Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (1900)Document 26-2: Mary Cassatt, Reading Le Figaro (1878)Document 26-3: John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1920)Document 26-4: Hyperinflation in Germany (1923)Document 26-5: Sir Percy Malcolm Stewart, Parliament Addresses the Great Depression in Britain (1934)Document 26-6: Heinrich Hauser, With the Unemployed in Germany (1933)Document 26-7: German Communist Party Poster (1932)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 2627 Dictatorships and the Second World War 1919–1945Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadAuthoritarian StatesConservative Authoritarianism and Radical Totalitarian DictatorshipsCommunism and FascismStalin’s Soviet UnionFrom Lenin to StalinThe Five-Year PlansLife and Culture in Soviet SocietyStalinist Terror and the Great PurgesEvaluating the Evidence 27.1: Stalin Justifies the Five-Year PlanEvaluating the Evidence 27.2: Famine and Recovery on a Soviet Collective FarmMussolini and Fascism in ItalyThe Seizure of PowerThe Regime in ActionHitler and Nazism in GermanyThe Roots of National SocialismHitler’s Road to PowerState and Society in Nazi GermanyPopular Support for National SocialismAggression and AppeasementThe Second World WarGerman Victories in EuropeEurope Under Nazi OccupationThe HolocaustJapanese Empire and the War in the PacificThe "Hinge of Fate"Allied VictoryEvaluating the Evidence 27.3: Everyday Life in the London BlitzReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadIndividuals in Society: Primo LeviThinking Like a Historian: Normalizing Eugenics and "Racial Hygiene" in Nazi GermanyLiving in the Past: Nazi Propaganda and Consumer GoodsMapping the Past: World War II in Europe and Africa, 1939–1945Summative Quiz LaunchPad27.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 27 LaunchPadDocument 27-1: Richard Washburn Child, Foreword to the Autobiography of Benito Mussolini (1928)Document 27-2: Vladimir Tchernavin, I Speak for the Silent (1930)Document 27-3: Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf: The Art of Propaganda (1924)Document 27-4: Soviet Propaganda Posters (1941 and 1945)Document 27-5: Winston Churchill, Speech Before the House of Commons (June 18, 1940)Document 27-6: The Nuremberg Laws: The Centerpiece of Nazi Racial Legislation (1935)Document 27-7: Alfred Rosenberg, The Jewish Question as a World Problem (1941)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 2728 Cold War Conflict and Consensus 1945–1965Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadPostwar Europe and the Origins of the Cold WarThe Legacies of the Second World WarThe Peace Settlement and Cold War OriginsWest Versus EastBig Science in the Nuclear AgeThe Western Renaissance/Recovery in Western EuropeThe Search for Political and Social ConsensusToward European UnityThe Consumer RevolutionEvaluating the Evidence 28.1: Western European Recovery and the Promise of ProsperityDevelopments in the Soviet Union and the East BlocPostwar Life in the East BlocReform and De-StalinizationForeign Policy and Domestic RebellionThe Limits of ReformEvaluating the Evidence 28.2: The Nixon-Khrushchev "Kitchen Debate"The End of EmpiresDecolonization and the Global Cold WarThe Struggle for Power in AsiaIndependence and Conflict in the Middle EastDecolonization in AfricaEvaluating the Evidence 28.3: Frantz Fanon on Violence, Decolonization, and Human DignityPostwar Social TransformationsChanging Class StructuresPatterns of Postwar MigrationNew Roles for WomenYouth Culture and the Generation GapReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadMapping the Past: The Aftermath of World War II in Europe, ca. 1945–1950Living in the Past: A Model Socialist Steel TownThinking Like a Historian: Violence and the Algerian WarIndividuals in Society: Armando RodriguesSummative Quiz LaunchPad28.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 28 LaunchPadDocument 28-1: George C. Marshall, An American Plan to Rebuild a Shattered Europe (June 5, 1947)Document 28-2: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)Document 28-3: Joseph Stalin, Interview Regarding Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech (March 14, 1946)Document 28-4: Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961)Document 28-5: Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 2829 Challenging the Postwar Order 1960–1991Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadReform and Protest in the 1960sCold War Tensions ThawThe Affluent SocietyThe Counterculture MovementThe United States and VietnamStudent Revolts and 1968The 1960s in the East BlocEvaluating the Evidence 29.1: Human Rights Under the Helsinki AccordsCrisis and Change in Western EuropeEconomic Crisis and HardshipThe New ConservatismChallenges and Victories for WomenThe Rise of the Environmental MovementSeparatism and Right-Wing ExtremismEvaluating the Evidence 29.2: Simone de Beauvoir’s Feminist Critique of MarriageThe Decline of "Developed Socialism"State and Society in the East BlocDissent in Czechoslovakia and PolandFrom Détente Back to Cold WarGorbachev’s Reforms in the Soviet UnionEvaluating the Evidence 29.3: Dissent in the Czechoslovak Socialist RepublicThe Revolutions of 1989The Collapse of Communism in the East BlocGerman Unification and the End of the Cold WarThe Disintegration of the Soviet UnionLooking Back / Looking AheadReview & Explore LearningCurveLaunchPadLiving in the Past: The Supermarket RevolutionIndividuals in Society: Margaret ThatcherThinking Like a Historian: The New Environmentalism Mapping the Past: Democratic Movements in Eastern Europe, 1989Summative Quiz LaunchPad29.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 29 LaunchPadDocument 29-1: Solidarity Union, Twenty-One Demands: A Call for Workers’ Rights and Freedoms (1980)Document 29-2: Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika: A Soviet Leader Calls for Change (1987)Document 29-3: Jeff Widener, Tank Man (1989)Document 29-4: Betty Friedan, Statement of Purpose of the National Organization for Women: Defining Full Equality (1966)Document 29-5: Vaclav Havel, New Year’s Address to the Nation (1990)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 2930 Life in an Age of Globalization 1990 to the PresentGuided Reading Exercise LaunchPadReshaping the Soviet Union and the Former East Bloc Economic Shock Therapy in RussiaRussian Revival Under Vladimir PutinCoping with Change in the Former East BlocTragedy in YugoslaviaInstability in the Former Soviet RepublicsEvaluating the Evidence 30.1: President Putin on Global SecurityThe New Global SystemThe Global EconomyThe New European UnionSupranational OrganizationsThe Human Side of GlobalizationLife in the Digital AgeEthnic Diversity in Contemporary EuropeThe Prospect of Population DeclineChanging Immigration FlowsToward a Multicultural ContinentEurope and Its Muslim PopulationEvaluating the Evidence 30.2: William Pfaff, Will the French Riots Change Anything?Confronting Long-Term Challenges Growing Strains in U.S.-European RelationsTurmoil in the Muslim WorldThe Global Recession and the Viability of the EurozoneDependence on Fossil FuelsClimate Change and Environmental DegradationPromoting Human RightsEvaluating the Evidence 30.3: The Thessaloniki ProgrammeLooking Back / Looking AheadReview & Explore LearningCurveLaunchPadMapping the Past: The European Union, 2016Living in the Past: The EuroIndividuals in Society: Edward SnowdenThinking Like a Historian: The Conservative Reaction to Immigration and Islamist TerrorismThe Past Living Now: Remembering the HolocaustSummative Quiz LaunchPad30.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 30 LaunchPadDocument 30-1: Amartya Sen, A World Not Neatly Divided (November 23, 2001)Document 30-2: Tariq Ramadan, Western Muslims and the Future of Islam (2004)Document 30-3: A Greenpeace Activist at the G8 Summit (2001)Document 30-4: A Tunisian Woman Casts Her Vote (2011)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 30

John P. McKay

John P. McKay (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is professor emeritus at the University of Illinois. He has written or edited numerous works, including the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize-winning book Pioneers for Profit: Foreign Entrepreneurship and Russian Industrialization, 1885-1913.

Clare Haru Crowston

Clare Haru Crowston (Ph.D., Cornell University) teaches at the University of Illinois, where she is currently associate professor of history. She is the author of Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791, which won the Berkshire and Hagley Prizes. She edited two special issues of the Journal of Women's History, has published numerous journal articles and reviews, and is a past president of the Society for French Historical Studies.

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) taught first at Augustana College in Illinois, and since 1985 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she is currently UWM Distinguished Professor in the department of history. She is the coeditor of the Sixteenth Century Journal and the author or editor of more than twenty books, most recently The Marvelous Hairy Girls: The Gonzales Sisters and Their Worlds and Gender in History. She is the former Chief Reader for Advanced Placement World History.

Joe Perry

Joe Perry (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is Associate Professor of modern German and European history at Georgia State University. He has published numerous articles and is author of the recently published book Christmas in Germany: A Cultural History (2010). His current research interests include issues of consumption, gender, and television in East and West Germany after World War II.

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Please note: The Combined Volume includes all chapters. Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-16.Volume 2 includes Chapters 14-30.Volume A includes Chapters 1-12.Volume B includes Chapters 11-19.Volume C includes Chapters 19-30.Since 1300 includes Chapters 11-30.NOTE: LaunchPad material that does not appear in the print book – including guided reading exercises, author features, LearningCurve adaptive quizzes, and summative quizzes– has been indicated on this table of contents as shown. Each chapter in LaunchPad also comes with a wealth of additional documents, videos, key terms flashcards, map quizzes, timeline activities, and much more, all of which can be easily integrated and assigned.ContentsPrefaceVersions and SupplementsMaps, Figures, and TablesSpecial Features

1 ORIGINS to 1200 b.c.e.Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadUnderstanding Western HistoryDescribing the West What Is Civilization?The Earliest Human SocietiesFrom the First Hominids to the Paleolithic EraPlanting CropsImplications of AgricultureTrade and Cross-Cultural ConnectionsEvaluating the Evidence 1.1: Paleolithic Venus FiguresCivilization in MesopotamiaEnvironment and Mesopotamian DevelopmentThe Invention of Writing and the First SchoolsReligion in MesopotamiaSumerian Politics and SocietyEvaluating the Evidence 1.2: Gilgamesh’s Quest for ImmortalityEmpires in MesopotamiaThe Akkadians and the BabyloniansLife Under HammurabiCultural Exchange in the Fertile CrescentThe EgyptiansThe Nile and the God-KingEgyptian ReligionEgyptian Society and WorkEgyptian Family LifeThe Hyksos and New Kingdom RevivalConflict and Cooperation with the HittitesEvaluating the Evidence 1.3: Egyptian Home LifeLooking Back / Looking AheadReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadLiving in the Past: The IcemanThinking Like a Historian: Addressing the GodsMapping the Past: Empires and Migrations in the Eastern Mediterranean Individuals in Society: Hatshepsut and NefertitiSummative Quiz LaunchPad

1. Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 1 LaunchPadDocument 1-1: The Battle Between Marduk and Tiamat (ca. 2000–1000 B.C.E.)Document 1-2: The Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 2750 B.C.E.)Document 1-3: The Code of Hammurabi (ca. 1780 B.C.E.)Document 1-4: The Egyptian Book of the Dead (ca. 2100–1800 B.C.E.)Document 1-5: Letters Between a Sumerian King and His Prime Minister (ca. 2000–1700 B.C.E.) Document 1-6: Akhenaten, The Hymn to Aton (ca. 1350 B.C.E.)Document 1-7: Lamentation Over the Destruction of Sumer and Ur (ca. 2000 - 1700 B.C.E.)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 12 Small Kingdoms and Mighty Empires in the Near East1200–510 b.c.e.Guided Reading ExerciseLaunchPadIron and the Emergence of New StatesIron TechnologyThe Decline of Egypt and the Emergence of KushThe Rise of PhoeniciaEvaluating the Evidence 2.1: The Report of WenamunThe HebrewsThe Hebrew StateThe Jewish ReligionHebrew Family and SocietyEvaluating the Evidence 2.2: A Jewish Family Contract Assyria, the Military MonarchyAssyria’s Long Road to PowerAssyrian Rule and CultureThe Neo-Babylonian EmpireEvaluating the Evidence 2.3: Assyrians Besiege a CityThe Empire of the Persian KingsConsolidation of the Persian EmpirePersian ReligionPersian Art and CultureReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadThinking Like a Historian: The Moral LifeMapping the Past: The Assyrian and Persian Empires, ca. 1000–500 b.c.e.Living in the Past: Assyrian Palace Life and PowerIndividuals in Society: Cyrus the GreatSummative Quiz LaunchPad2.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 2 LaunchPadDocument 2-1: Book of Genesis (ca. 950–450 B.C.E.)Document 2-2: Exodus and Deuteronomy (ca. 950–450 B.C.E.)Document 2-3: Assyrian Kings Proclaim Their Greatness (ca. 1220–1070 B.C.E.) Document 2-4: Cyrus and Persia, Ruling an Empire (ca. 550 B.C.E.)Document 2-5: Book of Isaiah: Blessings for Cyrus (ca. 550 B.C.E.)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 23 The Development of Greek Society and Cultureca. 3000–338 b.c.e.Guided Reading ExerciseLaunchPadGreece in the Bronze AgeGeography and SettlementThe MinoansThe MycenaeansHomer, Hesiod, and the EpicEvaluating the Evidence 3.1: Hesiod, Works and DaysThe Development of the Polis in the Archaic AgeOrganization of the PolisGoverning StructuresOverseas ExpansionThe Growth of SpartaThe Evolution of AthensWar and Turmoil in the Classical PeriodThe Persian WarsGrowth of the Athenian EmpireThe Peloponnesian WarThe Struggle for DominancePhilip II and Macedonian SupremacyClassical Greek Life and CultureAthenian Arts in the Age of PericlesHouseholds and WorkGender and SexualityPublic and Personal ReligionThe Flowering of PhilosophyEvaluating the Evidence 3.2: The Acropolis of AthensEvaluating the Evidence 3.3 Sophocles, AntigoneReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadLiving in the Past: Triremes and Their CrewsMapping the Past: The Peloponnesian War, 431–404 b.c.e.Thinking Like a Historian: Gender Roles in Classical AthensIndividuals in Society: Aristophanes00Summative Quiz LaunchPad3.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 3 LaunchPadDocument 3-1: Homer, The Odyssey: Odysseus and the Sirens (ca. 800 B.C.E.)Document 3-2: Hesiod, Works and Days (ca. 800 B.C.E.)Document 3-3: Sophocles, Antigone (441 B.C.E.)Document 3-4: Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War: Pericles’ Funeral Oration (ca. 400 B.C.E.)Document 3-5: Plato, The Republic: The Allegory of the Cave (ca. 360 B.C.E.)Document 3-6: Aristotle, Politics: Democracy (ca. 340 B.C.E.)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 34 Life in the Hellenistic World 336–30 b.c.e.Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadAlexander’s Conquests and Their Political LegacyMilitary CampaignsThe Political LegacyEvaluating the Evidence 4.1: Arrian on Alexander the GreatBuilding a Hellenized SocietyUrban LifeGreeks in Hellenistic CitiesGreeks and Non-GreeksThe Economy of the Hellenistic WorldAgriculture and IndustryCommerceReligion and Philosophy in the Hellenistic WorldReligion and MagicHellenism and the JewsPhilosophy and the PeopleEvaluating the Evidence 4.2: A Hellenistic Spell of AttractionHellenistic Science and MedicineScienceMedicineEvaluating the Evidence 4.3: The Periplus of the Erythraean SeaReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadMapping the Past: The Hellenistic World, ca. 263 b.c.eLiving in the Past: Farming in the Hellenistic WorldThe Past Living Now: Container ShippingIndividuals in Society: Archimedes, Scientist and InventorThinking Like a Historian: Hellenistic MedicineSummative Quiz LaunchPad4.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 4 LaunchPadDocument 4-1: Ephippus of Olynthus, On the Burial of Alexander and Hephaestion: Ephippus of Olynthus Remembers Alexander the Great (ca. 323 B.C.E.)Document 4-2: Plutarch, Life of Cleomenes III (75 C.E.)Document 4-3: Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers: Diogenes of Sinope, the Cynic (ca. 300–200 B.C.E.)Document 4-4: Epicurus, The Principal Doctrines of Epicureanism (ca. 306 B.C.E.)Document 4-5: Epictetus, Encheiridion, or The Manual (ca. 100 C.E.)Document 4-6: Polybius, A Greek Historian Describes Byzantium’s Contribution to Regional Trade (ca. 170–118 B.C.E.)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 45 The Rise of Rome ca. 1000–27 b.c.e.Guided Reading ExerciseLaunchPadRome’s Rise to PowerThe Geography of ItalyThe EtruscansThe Founding of RomeThe Roman Conquest of ItalyEvaluating the Evidence 5.1: The Temple of Hercules VictorThe Roman RepublicThe Roman StateSocial Conflict in RomeRoman ExpansionThe Punic WarsRome Turns EastRoman SocietyRoman FamiliesGreek Influence on Roman CultureOpposing Views: Cato the Elder and Scipio AemilianusEvaluating the Evidence 5.2: A Woman’s Actions in the Turia InscriptionThe Late RepublicReforms for Poor and Landless CitizensPolitical ViolenceCivil WarEvaluating the Evidence 5.3: Cicero and the Plot to Kill CaesarReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadMapping the Past: Roman Expansion During the Republic, ca. 282–44 b.c.e.Living in the Past: Roman Table MannersThinking Like a Historian: Land Ownership and Social Conflict in the Late RepublicIndividuals in Society: Queen CleopatraSummative Quiz LaunchPad5.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 5 LaunchPadDocument 5-1: Livy, The Rape of Lucretia (ca. 27–25 B.C.E.)Document 5-2: A Roman Wedding (ca. 160 c.e.)Document 5-3: The Law of the Twelve Tables (449 b.c.e.)Document 5-4: Seneca, The Sounds of a Roman Bath (ca. 50 C.E.)Document 5-5: Appian of Alexandria, The Civil Wars (ca. 100 C.E.)Document 5-6: Plutarch, On Julius Caesar, a Man of Unlimited Ambition (ca. 44 B.C.E.)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 56 The Roman Empire 27 b.c.e.–284 c.e.Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadAugustus’s ReignThe PrincipateRoman ExpansionThe Flowering of Latin LiteratureMarriage and MoralityEvaluating the Evidence 6.1: Augustus, Res GestaeEvaluating the Evidence 6.2: Ovid, The Art of LoveEvaluating the Evidence 6.3: Ara PacisAugustus’s SuccessorsThe Julio-Claudians and the FlaviansThe Age of the "Five Good Emperors"Rome and the ProvincesLife in Imperial RomeApproaches to Urban ProblemsPopular EntertainmentProsperity in the Roman ProvincesTrade and CommerceThe Coming of ChristianityFactors Behind the Rise of ChristianityThe Life and Teachings of JesusThe Spread of ChristianityThe Growing Acceptance and Evolution of ChristianityThe Empire in DisarrayCivil Wars and Military CommandersTurmoil in Economic LifeReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadThinking Like a Historian: Army and EmpireIndividuals in Society: Pliny the ElderLiving in the Past: Roman Epitaphs: Death Remembers LifeMapping the Past: Production and Trade in the Pax Romana, ca. 27 b.c.e.–180 c.e.Summative Quiz LaunchPad6.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 6 LaunchPadDocument 6-1: Tacitus, Germania (ca. 100 C.E.)Document 6-2: Apuleius, The Golden Ass: The Veneration of Isis (ca. 170 C.E.)Document 6-3: The Gospel According to Matthew: The Sermon on the Mount (28 C.E.)Document 6-4: Paul of Tarsus, Epistle to the Galatians (ca. 50–60 C.E.)Document 6-5: The Alexamenos Graffito (ca. 100 C.E.)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 67 Late Antiquity 250–600Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadReconstruction Under Diocletian and ConstantinePolitical MeasuresEconomic IssuesThe Acceptance of ChristianityThe Growth of the Christian ChurchThe Church and Its LeadersThe Development of Christian MonasticismMonastery LifeChristianity and Classical CultureChristian Notions of Gender and SexualitySaint Augustine on Human Nature, Will, and SinBarbarian SocietyVillage and Family LifeTribes and HierarchiesCustomary and Written LawCeltic and Germanic ReligionEvaluating the Evidence 7.1: Tacitus on Germanic SocietyMigration, Assimilation, and ConflictCeltic and Germanic People in Gaul and BritainVisigoths and HunsGermanic Kingdoms and the End of the Roman EmpireEvaluating the Evidence 7.2: Battle Between Romans and GothsChristian Missionaries and ConversionMissionaries’ ActionsThe Process of ConversionEvaluating the Evidence 7.3: Gregory of Tours on the Veneration of RelicsThe Byzantine EmpireSources of Byzantine StrengthThe Law Code of JustinianByzantine Intellectual LifeThe Orthodox ChurchReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadThinking Like a Historian: Slavery in Roman and Germanic SocietyMapping the Past: The Barbarian Migrations, ca. 340–500Living in the Past: The Horses of SpainIndividuals in Society: Theodora of ConstantinopleSummative Quiz LaunchPad7.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 7 LaunchPadDocument 7-1: Saint Ambrose of Milan, Emperor Theodosius Brought to Heel (390)Document 7-2: Saint Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict (529)Document 7-3: Saint Augustine, City of God: The Two Cities (413–426)Document 7-4: The Law of the Salian Franks (ca. 500–600)Document 7-5: Emperor Justinian, The Institutes of Justinian (529–533)Document 7-6: Procopius of Caesarea, The Secret History (ca. 550)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 78 Europe in the Early Middle Ages 600–1000Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadThe Spread of IslamThe ArabsThe Prophet MuhammadThe Teachings and Expansion of IslamSunni and Shi’a DivisionsLife in Muslim SpainMuslim-Christian RelationsCross-Cultural Influences in Science and MedicineEvaluating the Evidence 8.1: The Muslim Conquest of SpainFrankish Rulers and Their TerritoriesThe MerovingiansThe Rise of the CarolingiansThe Warrior-Ruler CharlemagneCarolingian Government and SocietyThe Imperial Coronation of CharlemagneEvaluating the Evidence 8.2: The Capitulary de VillisEarly Medieval CultureThe Carolingian RenaissanceNorthumbrian Learning and WritingEvaluating the Evidence 8.3: The Death of BeowulfInvasions and MigrationsVikings in Western EuropeSlavs and Vikings in Eastern EuropeMagyars and MuslimsPolitical and Economic DecentralizationDecentralization and the Origins of "Feudalism"Manorialism, Serfdom, and the Slave TradeReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadLiving in the Past: Muslim Technology: Advances in PapermakingIndividuals in Society: The Venerable BedeMapping the Past: Invasions and Migrations of the Ninth and Tenth CenturiesThinking Like a Historian: Vikings Tell Their Own StorySummative Quiz LaunchPad8.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 8 LaunchPadDocument 8-1: Ibn Abd-El-Hakem, The Conquest of Spain (ca. 870)Document 8-2: Willibald, Saint Boniface Destroys the Oak of Thor (ca. 750)Document 8-3: Charlemagne, Capitulary for Saxony (ca. 775–790)Document 8-4: Charlemagne, General Capitulary for the MissiDocument 8-5: The Song of Roland (ca. 1100–1300)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 89 State and Church in the High Middle Ages 1000–1300 Guided Reading ExerciseLaunchPadPolitical Revival and the Origins of the Modern StateEnglandFranceCentral EuropeItalyThe Iberian PeninsulaEvaluating the Evidence 9.1: Marriage and Wardship in the Norman ExchequerLaw and JusticeLocal Laws and Royal CourtsThe Magna CartaLaw in Everyday LifeNoblesOrigins and Status of the NobilityTraining, Marriage, and InheritancePower and ResponsibilityThe PapacyThe Gregorian ReformsEmperor Versus PopeCriticism and HeresyThe Popes and Church LawEvaluating the Evidence 9.2: Pope Boniface VIII, Unam SanctamMonks, Nuns, and FriarsMonastic RevivalLife in Convents and MonasteriesThe FriarsEvaluating the Evidence 9.3: Brother Henry as Composer and SingerThe Crusades and the Expansion of ChristianityBackground and Motives of the CrusadesThe Course of the CrusadesConsequences of the CrusadesThe Expansion of ChristianityChristendomReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadLiving in the Past: Life in an English CastleIndividuals in Society: Hildegard of BingenMapping the Past: The CrusadesThinking Like a Historian: Christian and Muslim Views of the CrusadesSummative Quiz LaunchPad9.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 9 LaunchPadDocument 9-1: Duke William of Aquitaine, On the Foundation of Cluny (909)Document 9-2: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: William the Conqueror and the Domesday Book (1086)Document 9-3: King John of England, From Magna Carta: The Great Charter of Liberties (1215)Document 9-4: Pope Gregory VII and Emperor Henry IV, Mutual Recriminations: The Investiture Controversy Begins (1076)Document 9-5: Robert the Monk of Rheims, Urban II at the Council of Clermont (ca. 1120)Document 9-6: Guibert of Nogent/Anna Comnena, Peter the Hermit and the "People’s Crusade" (ca. 1108–1148)Document 9-7: Anonymous of Mainz, The Slaughter of the Jews (ca. 1096)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 910 Life in Villages and Cities of the High Middle Ages 1000–1300Village LifeGuided Reading Exercise LaunchPadSlavery, Serfdom, and Upward MobilityThe ManorWorkHome LifeChildbirth and Child AbandonmentPopular ReligionChristian Life in Medieval VillagesSaints and SacramentsMuslims and JewsRituals of Marriage and BirthDeath and the AfterlifeEvaluating the Evidence 10.1: The Pilgrim’s Guide to Santiago de CompostelaTowns and Economic RevivalThe Rise of TownsMerchant and Craft GuildsThe Revival of Long-Distance TradeBusiness ProceduresThe Commercial RevolutionUrban LifeCity LifeServants and the PoorPopular EntertainmentMedieval UniversitiesOriginsLegal and Medical TrainingTheology and PhilosophyUniversity StudentsEvaluating the Evidence 10.2: Healthy LivingLiterature and ArchitectureVernacular Literature and DramaChurches and CathedralsEvaluating the Evidence 10.3: Courtly Love PoetryReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadThinking Like a Historian: Social and Economic Relations in Medieval English VillagesLiving in the Past: Child’s PlayMapping the Past: European Population Density, ca. 1300Individuals in Society: Francesco DatiniThe Past Living Now: University LifeSummative Quiz LaunchPad10.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 10 LaunchPadDocument 10-1: Manorial Records of Bernehorne (1307)Document 10-2: On Laborers: A Dialogue Between Teacher and Student (ca. 1000)Document 10-3: The Charter of the Laon Commune (ca. 1100–1120)Document 10-4: The Ordinances of London’s Leatherworkers (1346)Document 10-5: The Commune of Florence, A Sumptuary Law: Restrictions on Dress (1373)Document 10-6: Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica: Proof of the Existence of God (1268)Document 10-7: Jacques de Vitry, The Virgin Mary Saves a Monk and His Lover (ca. 1200)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 1011 The Later Middle Ages 1300–1450Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadPrelude to DisasterClimate Change and FamineSocial ConsequencesThe Black DeathPathologySpread of the DiseaseCare of the SickEconomic, Religious, and Cultural EffectsEvaluating the Evidence 11.1: Dance of DeathThe Hundred Years’ WarCausesEnglish SuccessesJoan of Arc and France’s VictoryAftermathEvaluating the Evidence 11.2: The Trial of Joan of ArcChallenges to the ChurchThe Babylonian Captivity and Great SchismCritiques, Divisions, and CouncilsLay Piety and MysticismSocial Unrest in a Changing SocietyPeasant RevoltsUrban ConflictsSex in the CityFur-Collar CrimeEthnic Tensions and RestrictionsLiteracy and Vernacular LiteratureEvaluating the Evidence 11.3: Christine de Pizan, Advice to the Wives of ArtisansReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadMapping the Past: The Course of the Black Death in Fourteenth-Century EuropeLiving in the Past: Treating the PlagueIndividuals in Society: Meister EckhartThinking Like a Historian: Popular Revolts in the Late Middle AgesSummative Quiz LaunchPad11.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 11 LaunchPadDocument 11-1:Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron: The Plague Hits Florence (ca. 1350)Document 11-2: Angelo di Tura, Sienese Chronicle (1348–1351)Document 11-3: The Anonimalle Chronicle: The English Peasants’ Revolt (1381)Document 11-4: Petrarca-Meister, The Social Order (ca. 1515)Document 11-5: Catherine of Siena, Letter to Gregory XI (1372)Document 11-6: The Debate Over Joan of Arc’s Clothes (1429)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 1112 European Society in the Age of the Renaissance 1350–1550Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadWealth and Power in Renaissance ItalyTrade and ProsperityCommunes and Republics of Northern ItalyCity-States and the Balance of PowerEvaluating the Evidence 12.1: A Sermon of SavonarolaIntellectual ChangeHumanismEducationPolitical ThoughtChristian HumanismThe Printed WordEvaluating the Evidence 12.2: Thomas More, UtopiaArt and the ArtistPatronage and PowerChanging Artistic StyleThe Renaissance ArtistSocial HierarchiesRace and SlaveryWealth and the NobilityGender RolesPolitics and the State in Western EuropeFranceEnglandSpainEvaluating the Evidence 12.3: A Gold Coin of Ferdinand and IsabellaReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadThinking Like a Historian: Humanist LearningMapping the Past: The Growth of Printing in Europe, 1448–1552Individuals in Society: Leonardo da VinciLiving in the Past: Male Clothing and MasculinitySummative Quiz LaunchPad12.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 12 LaunchPadDocument 12-1:Petrarch, Letter to Livy (1350)Document 12-2: Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (1513)Document 12-3:Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (1528)Document 12-4: Desiderius Erasmus, The Education of a Christian Prince (1404)Document 12-5: Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies: Against Those Men Who Claim It Is Not Good for Women to Be Educated (1404)Document 12-6: Artemisia Gentileschi, Susannah and the Elders (1610)Document 12-7: Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith and Holofernes (1610)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 1213 Reformations and Religious Wars 1500–1600Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadThe Early ReformationThe Christian Church in the Early Sixteenth CenturyMartin LutherProtestant ThoughtThe Appeal of Protestant IdeasThe Radical Reformation and the German Peasants’ WarMarriage, Sexuality, and the Role of WomenEvaluating the Evidence 13.1: Martin Luther, On Christian LibertyEvaluating the Evidence 13.2: Domestic SceneThe Reformation and German PoliticsThe Rise of the Habsburg DynastyReligious Wars in Switzerland and GermanyThe Spread of Protestant IdeasScandinaviaHenry VIII and the Reformation in EnglandUpholding Protestantism in EnglandCalvinismThe Reformation in Eastern EuropeEvaluating the Evidence 13.3: Elizabethan Injunctions About ReligionThe Catholic ReformationPapal Reform and the Council of TrentNew and Reformed Religious OrdersReligious ViolenceFrench Religious WarsThe Netherlands Under Charles VThe Great European Witch-HuntReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadLiving in the Past: Uses of Art in the ReformationIndividuals in Society: Anna Jansz of RotterdamThinking Like a Historian: Social Discipline in the ReformationMapping the Past: Religious Divisions in Europe, ca. 1555Summative Quiz LaunchPad13.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 13 LaunchPadDocument 13-1:Martin Luther, Ninety-five Theses on the Power of Indulgences (1517)Document 13-2: Hans Holbein the Younger, Luther as the German Hercules (ca. 1519)Document 13-3:Jean Bodin, On the Demon-Mania of Witches (1580)Document 13-4: Elizabeth Fox Confesses to Witchcraft (1566)Document 13-5: John Calvin, The Institutes of Christian Religion (1559)Document 13-6: Ignatius of Loyola, Rules for Right Thinking (1548)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 1314 European Exploration and Conquest 1450–1650Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadWorld Contacts Before ColumbusThe Trade World of the Indian OceanThe Trading States of AfricaThe Ottoman and Persian EmpiresGenoese and Venetian MiddlemenThe European Voyages of DiscoveryCauses of European ExpansionTechnology and the Rise of ExplorationThe Portuguese Overseas EmpireSpain’s Voyages to the AmericasSpain "Discovers" the PacificEarly Exploration by Northern European PowersEvaluating the Evidence 14.1: Columbus Describes His First VoyageConquest and SettlementSpanish Conquest of the Aztec and Inca EmpiresPortuguese BrazilColonial Empires of England and FranceColonial AdministrationThe Era of Global ContactIndigenous Population Loss and Economic ExploitationLife in the ColoniesThe Columbian ExchangeSugar and SlaverySpanish Silver and Its Economic EffectsThe Birth of the Global EconomyEvaluating the Evidence 14.2: Interpreting the Spread of Disease Among NativesChanging Attitudes and BeliefsReligious ConversionEuropean Debates About Indigenous PeoplesNew Ideas About RaceMichel de Montaigne and Cultural CuriosityWilliam Shakespeare and His InfluenceEvaluating the Evidence 14.3: Tenochtitlan Leaders Respond to Spanish MissionariesReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadMapping the Past: Overseas Exploration and Conquest in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth CenturiesThinking Like a Historian: Who Was Doña MarinaLiving in the Past: Foods of the Columbian ExchangeIndividuals in Society: Juan de ParejaSummative Quiz LaunchPad14.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 14 LaunchPadDocument 14-1:Christopher Columbus, Diario (1492)Document 14-2: Hernando Cortés, Two Letters to Charles V: On the Conquest of the Aztecs (1521)Document 14-3:Alvise da Ca' da Mosto, Description of Capo Bianco and the Islands Nearest to It: Fifteenth-Century Slave Trade in West Africa (1455–1456)Document 14-4: King Nzinga Mbemba Affonso of Congo, Letters on the Slave Trade (1526)Document 14-5: Saint Francis Xavier, Missionaries in Japan (1552)Document 14-6: Michel de Montaigne, Of Cannibals (1580)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 1415 Absolutism and Constitutionalism ca. 1589–1725Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadSeventeenth-Century Crisis and RebuildingThe Social Order and Peasant LifeFamine and Economic CrisisThe Thirty Years’ WarAchievements in State-BuildingWarfare and the Growth of Army SizePopular Political ActionAbsolutism in France and SpainThe Foundations of French AbsolutismLouis XIV and AbsolutismLife at VersaillesThe French Economic Policy of MercantilismLouis XIV’s WarsThe Decline of Absolutist Spain in the Seventeenth CenturyEvaluating the Evidence 15.1: Letter from VersaillesAbsolutism in Austria and PrussiaThe Return of Serfdom in the EastThe Austrian HabsburgsPrussia in the Seventeenth CenturyThe Consolidation of Prussian AbsolutismThe Development of Russia and the Ottoman EmpireMongol Rule in Russia and the Rise of MoscowBuilding the Russian EmpireThe Reforms of Peter the GreatThe Ottoman EmpireEvaluating the Evidence 15.2: Peter the Great and Foreign ExpertsConstitutional Rule in England and the Dutch RepublicReligious Divides and Civil WarThe Puritan ProtectorateThe Restoration of the English MonarchyConstitutional MonarchyThe Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth CenturyBaroque Art and MusicEvaluating the Evidence 15.3: John Locke, Two Treatises of GovernmentReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadThinking Like a Historian: What Was Absolutism?Mapping the Past: Europe After the Peace of Utrecht, 1715Living in the Past: The Absolutist PalaceIndividuals in Society: HürremSummative Quiz LaunchPad15.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 15 LaunchPadDocument 15-1:Henry IV, Edict of Nantes (1598)Document 15-2: Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture (1679)Document 15-3: The Bill of Rights (1689)Document 15-4: Peter the Great, Edicts and Decrees (1699–1723)Document 15-5: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651)Document 15-6: John Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government: Vindication for the Glorious Revolution (1690)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 1516 Toward a New Worldview 1540–1789Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadThe Scientific RevolutionWhy Europe?Scientific Thought to 1500The Copernican HypothesisBrahe, Kepler, and Galileo: Proving Copernicus RightNewton’s SynthesisNatural History and EmpireMagic and AlchemyEvaluating the Evidence 16.1: Galileo Galilei, The Sidereal MessengerImportant Changes in Scientific Thinking and PracticeThe Methods of Science: Bacon and DescartesMedicine, the Body, and ChemistryScience and ReligionScience and SocietyEvaluating the Evidence 16.2: "An Account of a Particular Species of Cocoon"The Rise and Spread of Enlightenment Thought The Early EnlightenmentThe Influence of the PhilosophesEnlightenment Movements Across EuropeThe Social Life of the EnlightenmentGlobal ContactsEnlightenment Debates About RaceWomen and the EnlightenmentUrban Culture and Life in the Public SphereEvaluating the Evidence 16.3: Denis Diderot, "Supplement to Bougainville’s Voyage"Enlightened AbsolutismFrederick the Great of PrussiaCatherine the Great of RussiaThe Austrian HabsburgsJewish Life and the Limits of Enlightened AbsolutismReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadThinking Like a Historian: The Enlightenment Debate on Religious ToleranceLiving in the Past: Coffeehouse CultureMapping the Past: The Partition of Poland, 1772–1795Individuals in Society: Moses Mendelssohn and the Jewish EnlightenmentSummative Quiz LaunchPad16.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 16 LaunchPadDocument 16-1:Nicolaus Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (1542)Document 16-2: Francis Bacon, On Superstition and the Virtue of Science (1620)Document 16-3: Frederick the Great, Essay on the Forms of Government (ca. 1740)Document 16-4: Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, From The Spirit of Laws: On the Separation of Governmental Powers (1748)Document 16-5: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract: On Popular Sovereignty and the General Will (1762)Document 16-6: Voltaire, A Treatise on Toleration (1763)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 1617 The Expansion of Europe 1650–1800Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadWorking the LandThe Legacy of the Open-Field SystemNew Methods of AgricultureThe Leadership of the Low Countries and EnglandEvaluating the Evidence 17.1: Arthur Young on the Benefits of EnclosureThe Beginning of the Population ExplosionLong-Standing Obstacles to Population GrowthThe New Pattern of the Eighteenth CenturyThe Growth of Rural IndustryThe Putting-Out SystemThe Lives of Rural Textile WorkersThe Industrious RevolutionThe Debate over Urban GuildsUrban GuildsAdam Smith and Economic LiberalismEvaluating the Evidence 17.2: Adam Smith on the Division of LaborThe Atlantic World and Global TradeMercantilism and Colonial CompetitionThe Atlantic EconomyThe Atlantic Slave TradeIdentities and Communities of the Atlantic WorldThe Atlantic EnlightenmentTrade and Empire in Asia and the PacificEvaluating the Evidence 17.3: Olaudah Equiano’s Economic Arguments for Ending SlaveryReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadMapping the Past: Industry and Population in Eighteenth-Century EuropeThinking Like a Historian: Rural Industry: Progress or Exploitation?Living in the Past: The Remaking of LondonIndividuals in Society: Rebecca ProttenSummative Quiz LaunchPad17.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 17 LaunchPadDocument 17-1: The Guild System in Germany (1704–1719)Document 17-2: Thomas Mun, England’s Treasure by Foreign Trade (1664)Document 17-3: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (1776)Document 17-4: Olaudah Equiano, A Description of the Middle Passage (1789)Document 17-5: Robert, First Baron Clive, Speech in the House of Commons on India (1772)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 1718 Life in the Era of Expansion 1650–1800Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadMarriage and the FamilyLate Marriage and Nuclear FamiliesWork Away from HomePremarital Sex and Community ControlsNew Patterns of Marriage and IllegitimacySex on the Margins of SocietyChildren and EducationChild Care and NursingFoundlings and InfanticideAttitudes Toward ChildrenThe Spread of Elementary SchoolsEvaluating the Evidence 18.1: Parisian BoyhoodPopular Culture and ConsumerismPopular LiteratureLeisure and RecreationNew Foods and AppetitesToward a Consumer SocietyEvaluating the Evidence 18.2: A Day in the Life of ParisReligious Authority and BeliefsChurch HierarchyProtestant RevivalCatholic PietyMarginal Beliefs and PracticesEvaluating the Evidence 18.3: Advice to MethodistsMedical PracticeFaith Healing and General PracticeImprovements in SurgeryMidwiferyThe Conquest of SmallpoxReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadMapping the Past: Literacy in France, ca. 1789The Past Living Now: The Commercialization of SportsIndividuals in Society: Rose Bertin, "Minister of Fashion"Thinking Like a Historian: A New SubjectivityLiving in the Past: Improvements in ChildbirthSummative Quiz LaunchPad18.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 18 LaunchPadDocument 18-1: Edmond Williamson, Births and Deaths in an English Gentry Family (1709–1720)Document 18-2: Mary Wortley Montagu, On Smallpox Inoculations (ca. 1717)Document 18-3: John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)Document 18-4: John Wesley, The Ground Rules for Methodism (1749)Document 18-5: Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (1794)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 1819 Revolutions in Politics 1775–1815Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadBackground to RevolutionSocial ChangeGrowing Demands for Liberty and EqualityThe Seven Years’ WarThe American Revolutionary Era, 1775–1789The Origins of the RevolutionIndependence from BritainFraming the ConstitutionLimitations of Liberty and EqualityEvaluating the Evidence 19.1: Abigail Adams, "Remember the Ladies"Revolution in France, 1789–1791Breakdown of the Old OrderThe Formation of the National AssemblyPopular Uprising and the Rights of ManA Constitutional Monarchy and Its ChallengesEvaluating the Evidence 19.2: Abbé Sieyès, What Is the Third Estate?World War and Republican France, 1791–1799The International ResponseThe Second Revolution and the New RepublicTotal War and the TerrorThe Thermidorian Reaction and the DirectoryEvaluating the Evidence 19.3: Contrasting Visions of the Sans-CulottesThe Napoleonic Era, 1799–1815Napoleon’s Rule of FranceNapoleon’s Expansion in EuropeThe Grand Empire and Its EndThe Haitian Revolution, 1791–1804Revolutionary Aspirations in Saint-DomingueThe Outbreak of RevoltThe War of Haitian IndependenceReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadThinking Like a Historian: The Rights of Which Men?Living in the Past: A Revolution of Culture and Daily LifeMapping the Past: Napoleonic Europe in 1812Individuals in Society: Toussaint L’OuvertureSummative Quiz LaunchPad19.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 19 LaunchPadDocument 19-1:Commissioners of the Third Estate of the Carcassonne, Notebooks of Grievances (1789)Document 19-2: Abbé Sieyès, What Is the Third Estate? (1789)Document 19-3: National Assembly of France, Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789)Document 19-4: The Law of 22 Prairial (1794)Document 19-5: Napoleon Bonaparte, The Napoleonic Code (1804)Document 19-6: Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)Document 19-7: François Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture, A Black Revolutionary Leader in Haiti (1797)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 1920 The Revolution in Energy and Industry ca. 1780–1850Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadThe Industrial Revolution in BritainWhy Britain?Technological Innovations and Early FactoriesThe Steam Engine BreakthroughSteam-Powered TransportationIndustry and PopulationIndustrialization in Europe and the WorldNational and International VariationsIndustrialization in Continental EuropeAgents of IndustrializationThe Global PictureNew Patterns of Working and LivingWork in Early FactoriesWorking Families and ChildrenThe New Sexual Division of LaborLiving Standards of the Working ClassEvaluating the Evidence 20.1: Debate over Child Labor LawsEvaluating the Evidence 20.2: The Testimony of Young Mine WorkersRelations Between Capital and LaborThe New Class of Factory OwnersResponses to IndustrializationThe Early British Labor MovementThe Impact of SlaveryEvaluating the Evidence 20.3: Advice for Middle-Class WomenReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadIndividuals in Society: Samuel CromptonLiving in the Past: The Steam AgeMapping the Past: Continental Industrialization, ca. 1850Thinking Like a Historian: Making the Industrialized WorkerSummative Quiz LaunchPad20.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 20 LaunchPadDocument 20-1:Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)Document 20-2: Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (1844)Document 20-3: Factory Rules in Berlin (1844)Document 20-4: Ned Ludd, Yorkshire Textile Workers Threaten a Factory Owner (ca. 1811–1812)Document 20-5: Robert Owen, A New View of Society (1813)Document 20-6: The Child of the Factory (1842)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 2021 Ideologies and Upheavals 1815–1850Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadThe Aftermath of the Napoleonic WarsThe European Balance of PowerMetternich and ConservatismRepressing the Revolutionary SpiritLimits to Conservative Power and Revolution in South AmericaEvaluating the Evidence 21.1: The Karlsbad Decrees: Conservative Reaction in the German ConfederationThe Spread of Radical IdeasLiberalism and the Middle ClassThe Growing Appeal of NationalismThe Foundations of Modern SocialismThe Birth of Marxist SocialismThe Romantic MovementThe Tenets of RomanticismRomantic LiteratureRomanticism in Art and MusicEvaluating the Evidence 21.2: English Romantic PoetsEvaluating the Evidence 21.3: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Children’s Stories and Household TalesReforms and Revolutions Before 1848National Liberation in GreeceLiberal Reform in Great BritainIreland and the Great FamineThe Revolution of 1830 in FranceThe Revolutions of 1848A Democratic Republic in FranceRevolution and Reaction in the Austrian EmpirePrussia, the German Confederation, and the Frankfurt National ParliamentReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadMapping the Past: Europe in 1815Thinking Like a Historian: The Republican Spirit in 1848Individuals in Society: Germaine de StaëlLiving in the Past: Revolutionary Experiences in 1848Summative Quiz LaunchPad21.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 21 LaunchPadDocument 21-1:David Ricardo, On Wages (1817)Document 21-2: Klemens von Metternich, Political Confession of Faith (1820)Document 21-3:John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)Document 21-4: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1848)Document 21-5: Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People (1830)Document 21-6: The People’s Charter (1838)Document 21-7: William Steuart Trench, Realities of Irish Life (1847)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 2122 Life in the Emerging Urban Society 1840–1914Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadTaming the CityIndustry and the Growth of CitiesThe Advent of the Public Health MovementThe Bacterial RevolutionImprovements in Urban PlanningPublic TransportationEvaluating the Evidence 22.1: First Impressions of the World’s Biggest CityRich and Poor and Those in BetweenMiddle-Class Culture and ValuesThe Distribution of IncomeThe People and Occupations of the Middle ClassesMiddle-Class Culture and ValuesThe People and Occupations of the Working ClassesWorking-Class Leisure and ReligionChanging Family LifestylesMiddle-Class Marriage and Courtship RitualsMiddle- and Working-Class SexualityProstitutionSeparate Spheres and the Importance of HomemakingChild RearingThe Feminist MovementEvaluating the Evidence 22.2: Stephan Zweig on Middle-Class Youth and SexualityScience and ThoughtThe Triumph of Science in IndustryDarwin and Natural SelectionThe Modern University and the Social SciencesRealism in Art and LiteratureEvaluating the Evidence 22.3: Émile Zola and Realism in LiteratureReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadMapping the Past: European Cities of 100,000 or More, 1800–1900The Past Living Now: Modern Sewage SystemsLiving in the Past: Nineteenth-Century Women’s FashionIndividuals in Society: Franziska TiburtiusThinking Like a Historian: The Promise of ElectricitySummative Quiz LaunchPad22.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 22 LaunchPadDocument 22-1:Edwin Chadwick, Inquiry into the Sanitary Condition of the Poor (1842)Document 22-2: Jack London, The People of the Abyss (1902)Document 22-3: Isabella Beeton, Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management (1861)Document 22-4: Dressing the Respectable Woman (ca. 1890)Document 22-5: Clara Zetkin, Women’s Work and the Trade Unions (1887)Document 22-6: Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871)Document 22-7: Herbert Spencer, Social Statics: Survival of the Fittest Applied to Humankind (1851)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 2223 The Age of Nationalism 1850–1914Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadNapoleon III in FranceFrance’s Second RepublicNapoleon III’s Second EmpireNation Building in Italy, Germany, and the United StatesItaly to 1850Cavour and Garibaldi in ItalyGrowing Austro-Prussian RivalryBismarck and the Austro-Prussian WarTaming the German ParliamentThe Franco-Prussian WarSlavery and Nation Building in the United StatesEvaluating the Evidence 23.1: The Struggle for the Italian NationThe Modernization of Russia and the Ottoman EmpireThe "Great Reforms" in RussiaThe Russian Revolution of 1905Reform and Readjustment in the Ottoman EmpireEvaluating the Evidence 23.2: Eyewitness Accounts of Bloody SundayThe Responsive National State, 1871–1914The German EmpireRepublican FranceGreat Britain and IrelandThe Austro-Hungarian EmpireThe Nation and the PeopleMaking National CitizensNationalism and RacismJewish Emancipation and Modern Anti-SemitismMarxism and the Socialist MovementThe Socialist InternationalLabor Unions and Marxist RevisionismEvaluating the Evidence 23.3: Adelheid Popp, the Making of a SocialistReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadMapping the Past: The Unification of Germany, 1864–1871Living in the Past: Peasant Life in Post-Reform RussiaThinking Like a Historian: How to Build a NationIndividuals in Society: Theodor HerzlSummative Quiz LaunchPad23.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 23 LaunchPadDocument 23-1: The First Meeting Between Mazzini and Garibaldi (1833)Document 23-2: Giorgio Asproni, Reflections on the Death of Cavour (1860)Document 23-3: Otto von Bismarck, Speech Before the Reichstag: On the Law for Workers’ Compensation (1884)Document 23-4: John Leighton, Paris Under the Commune (1871)Document 23-5: Émile Zola, "J’Accuse" the French Army (1898)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 2324 The West and the World 1815–1914Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadIndustrialization and the World EconomyThe Rise of Global InequalityThe World MarketThe Opening of ChinaJapan and the United StatesWestern Penetration of EgyptGlobal Migration Around 1900The Pressure of PopulationEuropean EmigrationAsian EmigrationEvaluating the Evidence 24.1: Nativism in the United StatesWestern Imperialism, 1880–1914The European Presence in Africa Before 1880The Scramble for Africa After 1880Imperialism in AsiaCauses of the New ImperialismA "Civilizing Mission"OrientalismCritics of ImperialismEvaluating the Evidence 24.2: The White Man’s BurdenEvaluating the Evidence 24.3: The Brown Man’s BurdenResponding to Western ImperialismThe Pattern of ResponseEmpire in IndiaThe Example of JapanToward Revolution in ChinaReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadMapping the Past: The Partition of AfricaLiving in the Past: The Immigrant ExperienceThinking Like a Historian: Women and EmpireIndividuals in Society: Cecil RhodesSummative Quiz LaunchPad24.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 24 LaunchPadDocument 24-1:Commissioner Lin Zexu, Letter to Queen Victoria (1839)Document 24-2: Jules Ferry, Speech Before the French Chamber of Deputies (1884)Document 24-3: The Rhodes Colossus (1892)Document 24-4: Henry Morton Stanley, Autobiography (1909)Document 24-5: Mark Twain, King Leopold’s Soliloquy (1905)Document 24-6: J. A. Hobson, Imperialism (1902)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 2425 War and Revolution 1914–1919 Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadThe Road to WarGrowing International ConflictThe Mood of 1914The Outbreak of WarWaging Total WarStalemate and Slaughter on the Western FrontThe Widening WarEvaluating the Evidence 25.1: Poetry in the TrenchesThe Home FrontMobilizing for Total WarThe Social ImpactGrowing Political TensionsEvaluating the Evidence 25.2: Wartime Propaganda PostersThe Russian RevolutionThe Fall of Imperial RussiaThe Provisional GovernmentLenin and the Bolshevik RevolutionTrotsky and the Seizure of PowerDictatorship and Civil WarEvaluating the Evidence 25.3: Peace, Land, and Bread for the Russian PeopleThe Peace SettlementThe End of the WarRevolution in Austria-Hungary and GermanyThe Treaty of VersaillesThe Peace Settlement in the Middle EastThe Human Costs of the WarReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadIndividuals in Society: Vera BrittainLiving in the Past: Life and Death on the Western FrontMapping the Past: Territorial Changes After World War IThinking Like a Historian: The Partition of the Ottoman Empire and the Mandate SystemSummative Quiz LaunchPad25.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 25 LaunchPadDocument 25-1: Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Telegram to the German Ambassador at Vienna (July 6, 1914)Document 25-2: Klaxon Horn Used to Warn of Gas Attacks (1917)Document 25-3: Baron Manfred von Richthofen (1917)Document 25-4: Helena Swanwick, The War in Its Effect Upon Women (1916)Document 25-5: Vladimir I. Lenin, What Is to Be Done? (1902)Document 25-6: Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points (1918)Document 25-7: A Defeated Germany Contemplates the Peace Treaty (1919)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 2526 The Age of Anxiety 1880–1940Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadUncertainty in Modern ThoughtModern PhilosophyThe Revival of ChristianityThe New PhysicsFreudian PsychologyEvaluating the Evidence 26.1: Friedrich Nietzsche Pronounces the Death of GodModernism in Architecture, Art, Literature, and MusicArchitecture and DesignNew Artistic MovementsTwentieth-Century LiteratureModern MusicEvaluating the Evidence 26.2: The Futurist ManifestoAn Emerging Consumer SocietyMass CultureThe Appeal of CinemaThe Arrival of RadioThe Search for Peace and Political StabilityGermany and the Western PowersHope in Foreign AffairsHope in Democratic GovernmentThe Great Depression, 1929–1939The Economic CrisisMass UnemploymentThe New Deal in the United StatesThe Scandinavian Response to the DepressionRecovery and Reform in Britain and FranceEvaluating the Evidence 26.3: George Orwell on Life on the DoleReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadLiving in the Past: Modern Design for Everyday UseThinking Like a Historian: The Radio AgeIndividuals in Society: Gustav StresemannMapping the Past: The Great Depression in the United States and Europe, 1929–1939Summative Quiz LaunchPad26.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 26 LaunchPadDocument 26-1: Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (1900)Document 26-2: Mary Cassatt, Reading Le Figaro (1878)Document 26-3: John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1920)Document 26-4: Hyperinflation in Germany (1923)Document 26-5: Sir Percy Malcolm Stewart, Parliament Addresses the Great Depression in Britain (1934)Document 26-6: Heinrich Hauser, With the Unemployed in Germany (1933)Document 26-7: German Communist Party Poster (1932)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 2627 Dictatorships and the Second World War 1919–1945Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadAuthoritarian StatesConservative Authoritarianism and Radical Totalitarian DictatorshipsCommunism and FascismStalin’s Soviet UnionFrom Lenin to StalinThe Five-Year PlansLife and Culture in Soviet SocietyStalinist Terror and the Great PurgesEvaluating the Evidence 27.1: Stalin Justifies the Five-Year PlanEvaluating the Evidence 27.2: Famine and Recovery on a Soviet Collective FarmMussolini and Fascism in ItalyThe Seizure of PowerThe Regime in ActionHitler and Nazism in GermanyThe Roots of National SocialismHitler’s Road to PowerState and Society in Nazi GermanyPopular Support for National SocialismAggression and AppeasementThe Second World WarGerman Victories in EuropeEurope Under Nazi OccupationThe HolocaustJapanese Empire and the War in the PacificThe "Hinge of Fate"Allied VictoryEvaluating the Evidence 27.3: Everyday Life in the London BlitzReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadIndividuals in Society: Primo LeviThinking Like a Historian: Normalizing Eugenics and "Racial Hygiene" in Nazi GermanyLiving in the Past: Nazi Propaganda and Consumer GoodsMapping the Past: World War II in Europe and Africa, 1939–1945Summative Quiz LaunchPad27.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 27 LaunchPadDocument 27-1: Richard Washburn Child, Foreword to the Autobiography of Benito Mussolini (1928)Document 27-2: Vladimir Tchernavin, I Speak for the Silent (1930)Document 27-3: Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf: The Art of Propaganda (1924)Document 27-4: Soviet Propaganda Posters (1941 and 1945)Document 27-5: Winston Churchill, Speech Before the House of Commons (June 18, 1940)Document 27-6: The Nuremberg Laws: The Centerpiece of Nazi Racial Legislation (1935)Document 27-7: Alfred Rosenberg, The Jewish Question as a World Problem (1941)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 2728 Cold War Conflict and Consensus 1945–1965Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadPostwar Europe and the Origins of the Cold WarThe Legacies of the Second World WarThe Peace Settlement and Cold War OriginsWest Versus EastBig Science in the Nuclear AgeThe Western Renaissance/Recovery in Western EuropeThe Search for Political and Social ConsensusToward European UnityThe Consumer RevolutionEvaluating the Evidence 28.1: Western European Recovery and the Promise of ProsperityDevelopments in the Soviet Union and the East BlocPostwar Life in the East BlocReform and De-StalinizationForeign Policy and Domestic RebellionThe Limits of ReformEvaluating the Evidence 28.2: The Nixon-Khrushchev "Kitchen Debate"The End of EmpiresDecolonization and the Global Cold WarThe Struggle for Power in AsiaIndependence and Conflict in the Middle EastDecolonization in AfricaEvaluating the Evidence 28.3: Frantz Fanon on Violence, Decolonization, and Human DignityPostwar Social TransformationsChanging Class StructuresPatterns of Postwar MigrationNew Roles for WomenYouth Culture and the Generation GapReview & ExploreLearningCurveLaunchPadMapping the Past: The Aftermath of World War II in Europe, ca. 1945–1950Living in the Past: A Model Socialist Steel TownThinking Like a Historian: Violence and the Algerian WarIndividuals in Society: Armando RodriguesSummative Quiz LaunchPad28.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 28 LaunchPadDocument 28-1: George C. Marshall, An American Plan to Rebuild a Shattered Europe (June 5, 1947)Document 28-2: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)Document 28-3: Joseph Stalin, Interview Regarding Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech (March 14, 1946)Document 28-4: Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961)Document 28-5: Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 2829 Challenging the Postwar Order 1960–1991Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadReform and Protest in the 1960sCold War Tensions ThawThe Affluent SocietyThe Counterculture MovementThe United States and VietnamStudent Revolts and 1968The 1960s in the East BlocEvaluating the Evidence 29.1: Human Rights Under the Helsinki AccordsCrisis and Change in Western EuropeEconomic Crisis and HardshipThe New ConservatismChallenges and Victories for WomenThe Rise of the Environmental MovementSeparatism and Right-Wing ExtremismEvaluating the Evidence 29.2: Simone de Beauvoir’s Feminist Critique of MarriageThe Decline of "Developed Socialism"State and Society in the East BlocDissent in Czechoslovakia and PolandFrom Détente Back to Cold WarGorbachev’s Reforms in the Soviet UnionEvaluating the Evidence 29.3: Dissent in the Czechoslovak Socialist RepublicThe Revolutions of 1989The Collapse of Communism in the East BlocGerman Unification and the End of the Cold WarThe Disintegration of the Soviet UnionLooking Back / Looking AheadReview & Explore LearningCurveLaunchPadLiving in the Past: The Supermarket RevolutionIndividuals in Society: Margaret ThatcherThinking Like a Historian: The New Environmentalism Mapping the Past: Democratic Movements in Eastern Europe, 1989Summative Quiz LaunchPad29.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 29 LaunchPadDocument 29-1: Solidarity Union, Twenty-One Demands: A Call for Workers’ Rights and Freedoms (1980)Document 29-2: Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika: A Soviet Leader Calls for Change (1987)Document 29-3: Jeff Widener, Tank Man (1989)Document 29-4: Betty Friedan, Statement of Purpose of the National Organization for Women: Defining Full Equality (1966)Document 29-5: Vaclav Havel, New Year’s Address to the Nation (1990)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 2930 Life in an Age of Globalization 1990 to the PresentGuided Reading Exercise LaunchPadReshaping the Soviet Union and the Former East Bloc Economic Shock Therapy in RussiaRussian Revival Under Vladimir PutinCoping with Change in the Former East BlocTragedy in YugoslaviaInstability in the Former Soviet RepublicsEvaluating the Evidence 30.1: President Putin on Global SecurityThe New Global SystemThe Global EconomyThe New European UnionSupranational OrganizationsThe Human Side of GlobalizationLife in the Digital AgeEthnic Diversity in Contemporary EuropeThe Prospect of Population DeclineChanging Immigration FlowsToward a Multicultural ContinentEurope and Its Muslim PopulationEvaluating the Evidence 30.2: William Pfaff, Will the French Riots Change Anything?Confronting Long-Term Challenges Growing Strains in U.S.-European RelationsTurmoil in the Muslim WorldThe Global Recession and the Viability of the EurozoneDependence on Fossil FuelsClimate Change and Environmental DegradationPromoting Human RightsEvaluating the Evidence 30.3: The Thessaloniki ProgrammeLooking Back / Looking AheadReview & Explore LearningCurveLaunchPadMapping the Past: The European Union, 2016Living in the Past: The EuroIndividuals in Society: Edward SnowdenThinking Like a Historian: The Conservative Reaction to Immigration and Islamist TerrorismThe Past Living Now: Remembering the HolocaustSummative Quiz LaunchPad30.Documents from Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 30 LaunchPadDocument 30-1: Amartya Sen, A World Not Neatly Divided (November 23, 2001)Document 30-2: Tariq Ramadan, Western Muslims and the Future of Islam (2004)Document 30-3: A Greenpeace Activist at the G8 Summit (2001)Document 30-4: A Tunisian Woman Casts Her Vote (2011)Quiz for Sources for A History of Western Society, Chapter 30

John P. McKay

John P. McKay (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is professor emeritus at the University of Illinois. He has written or edited numerous works, including the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize-winning book Pioneers for Profit: Foreign Entrepreneurship and Russian Industrialization, 1885-1913.

Clare Haru Crowston

Clare Haru Crowston (Ph.D., Cornell University) teaches at the University of Illinois, where she is currently associate professor of history. She is the author of Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791, which won the Berkshire and Hagley Prizes. She edited two special issues of the Journal of Women's History, has published numerous journal articles and reviews, and is a past president of the Society for French Historical Studies.

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) taught first at Augustana College in Illinois, and since 1985 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she is currently UWM Distinguished Professor in the department of history. She is the coeditor of the Sixteenth Century Journal and the author or editor of more than twenty books, most recently The Marvelous Hairy Girls: The Gonzales Sisters and Their Worlds and Gender in History. She is the former Chief Reader for Advanced Placement World History.

Joe Perry

Joe Perry (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is Associate Professor of modern German and European history at Georgia State University. He has published numerous articles and is author of the recently published book Christmas in Germany: A Cultural History (2010). His current research interests include issues of consumption, gender, and television in East and West Germany after World War II.